Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 21 Nov 2006 14:17:26 -0800 | From | "Davor Cubranic" <> | Subject | Re: Freeze with ATI Xpress 200 |
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Just to follow up on my original report: This seems to be a problem with running AMD "Cool & Quiet" when using the on-board graphics. (Why would Shuttle design an AMD motherboard with a integrated graphics which crashes the system if C&Q is turned on? Good question. Shame on Shuttle.) I initially reported that Windows worked fine, but although I did have AMD CPU driver installed on Windows, C&Q wasn't turned on in the "power options" control settings. Once I did that, Windows started crashing with the same symptoms as well until I turned it off again. I then turned off powernowd in Ubuntu and haven't seen it crash since. I'm guessing I never saw this in Gentoo because it did not have powernowd activated by default.
At any rate, this is not a kernel issue, sorry for the trouble.
Davor
P.S. I am not on this list, so please email me directly with any comments or questions.
On 10/30/06, Davor Cubranic <cubranic@gmail.com> wrote: > I am experiencing occasional system freezes in Ubuntu 6.06 (Dapper) on > a Shuttle ST20G5 with an Athlon (Venice) CPU and ATI Xpress 200 > chipset. It happens in X only -- the entire screen goes white and the > computer does not respond any more to anything but power-cycle. I had > the same issue in Breezy, then switched to Gentoo 2006.0 where > everything worked fine, and now that I'm back to Ubuntu with Dapper, I > see the issue is still there. It usually happens within an hour, > especially once I start up Firefox and/or Thunderbird. There are no > messages on the screen (at least those that are visible in X) or > kernel logs, the kernel crashes that hard. > > I've had this happen with open-source Radeon driver on Dapper and > ATI's fglrx drivers and the generic VESA on Breezy, so it doesn't look > like the problem is in the graphics driver. As I already mentioned, > this did not happen on Gentoo (both 2.6.15 and 2.6.16 kernels) nor on > Windows XP sp2 (dual-boot), and I haven't found any memory errors > using memtest. I would be happy to do any further investigation that > would help in narrowing down the problem, but am at a loss at where to > even start, so I'll submit my system's details here and I hope someone > can tell me if there is anything I can do to either narrow down the > source of the problem or capture more details about the crash. > > Davor > > > - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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