X dies unexpectedly

[Gary Hodges]

On 1/17/06, James Diehl <jms_diehl at sbcglobal.net> wrote:
> With AGP listed on some of these, after the crash, it
> appears your Ubuntu is having a compatibility/support
> problem with a graphics card.  Which one are you
> using?  My Compaq has the onboard Nividia graphics and
> so far no problem, but some of the ATI Radeon cards
> are not supported.  I contacted ATI, and they said
> they don't offer drivers for, or support Linux.  There
> are some drivers/support pkgs. in the synaptic pkg.
> mgr. for ATI Radeon & NVidia GLX.  On the other note;
> I had trouble a few times running Ubuntu & XP on the
> same machine.  Some people don't!  For some reason, my
> Compaq doesn't like to run Linux and Windows.  I have
> had to reinstall one, or the other several times.
> Diehl, James


I have a Matrox G450 installed.  It is all the same hardware I've run
for the past 2+ years.  Prior to Kubuntu I had SuSE 9.0 installed. 
There was a screensaver or two under SuSE I had to disable, but that
was way back and I forget which ones they were or how I figured out
they were causing problems.  I'm really not a screensaver kind of
person, but it takes my monitor so long to warm up and look right,
that I keep screensaver enabled.  Anyway, screensaver is just a guess
on my part.



> --- Gary Hodges <fsunoles at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > This has happened twice since I installed Kubuntu
> > 5.10.  I come in to
> > work and X has died over the weekend.  Both times
> > were Saturdays, but
> > that I'm guess is coincidence.  The logs have the
> > following repeated
> > several times (in the recent case 15 times):
> >
> > Jan 14 04:52:09 space kernel: [6268317.573000]
> > oom-killer: gfp_mask=0x1d2
> > Jan 14 04:52:09 space kernel: [6268317.573000] DMA
> > per-cpu:
> > Jan 14 04:52:09 space kernel: [6268317.573000] cpu 0
> > hot: low 2, high 6, batch 1
> > Jan 14 04:52:09 space kernel: [6268317.573000] cpu 0
> > cold: low 0, high
> > 2, batch 1
> > Jan 14 04:52:09 space kernel: [6268317.573000]
> > Normal per-cpu:
> > Jan 14 04:52:09 space kernel: [6268317.573000] cpu 0
> > hot: low 62, high
> > 186, batch 31
> > Jan 14 04:52:09 space kernel: [6268317.573000] cpu 0
> > cold: low 0, high
> > 62, batch 31
> > Jan 14 04:52:09 space kernel: [6268317.573000]
> > HighMem per-cpu: empty
> > Jan 14 04:52:09 space kernel: [6268317.573000]
> > Jan 14 04:52:09 space kernel: [6268317.573000] Free
> > pages:
> > 4960kB (0kB HighMem)
> > Jan 14 04:52:09 space kernel: [6268317.573000]
> > Active:58456
> > inactive:57800 dirty:0 writeback:0 unstable:0
> > free:1240 slab:4422
> > mapped:110609 pagetables:1039
> > Jan 14 04:52:09 space kernel: [6268317.573000] DMA
> > free:2088kB
> > min:88kB low:108kB high:132kB active:5420kB
> > inactive:5264kB
> > present:16384kB pages_scanned:40 all_unreclaimable?
> > no
> > Jan 14 04:52:09 space kernel: [6268317.573000]
> > lowmem_reserve[]: 0 495 495
> > Jan 14 04:52:09 space kernel: [6268317.573000]
> > Normal free:2872kB
> > min:2804kB low:3504kB high:4204kB active:228404kB
> > inactive:225936kB
> > present:507840kB pages_scanned:0 all_unreclaimable?
> > no
> > Jan 14 04:52:09 space kernel: [6268317.573000]
> > lowmem_reserve[]: 0 0 0
> > Jan 14 04:52:09 space kernel: [6268317.573000]
> > HighMem free:0kB
> > min:128kB low:160kB high:192kB active:0kB
> > inactive:0kB present:0kB
> > pages_scanned:0 all_unreclaimable? no
> > Jan 14 04:52:09 space kernel: [6268317.573000]
> > lowmem_reserve[]: 0 0 0
> > Jan 14 04:52:09 space kernel: [6268317.573000] DMA:
> > 6*4kB 0*8kB 1*16kB
> > 2*32kB 1*64kB 1*128kB 1*256kB 1*512kB 1*1024kB
> > 0*2048kB 0*4096kB =
> > 2088kB
> > Jan 14 04:52:09 space kernel: [6268317.573000]
> > Normal: 30*4kB 4*8kB
> > 4*16kB 7*32kB 6*64kB 0*128kB 0*256kB 0*512kB
> > 0*1024kB 1*2048kB
> > 0*4096kB = 2872kB
> > Jan 14 04:52:09 space kernel: [6268317.573000]
> > HighMem: empty
> > Jan 14 04:52:09 space kernel: [6268317.573000] Swap
> > cache: add
> > 2893401, delete 2893248, find 772245/979340, race
> > 0+21
> > Jan 14 04:52:09 space kernel: [6268317.573000] Free
> > swap  = 0kB
> > Jan 14 04:52:09 space kernel: [6268317.573000] Total
> > swap = 2032156kB
> >
> > And then the following occurs:
> >
> > Jan 14 04:52:18 space kernel: [6268328.041000]
> > agpgart: Found an AGP
> > 2.0 compliant device at 0000:00:00.0.
> > Jan 14 04:52:18 space kernel: [6268328.041000]
> > agpgart: Putting AGP V2
> > device at 0000:00:00.0 into 1x mode
> > Jan 14 04:52:18 space kernel: [6268328.041000]
> > agpgart: Putting AGP V2
> > device at 0000:01:05.0 into 1x mode
> >
> > I'm guessing this is when X crashes as everything
> > after looks like
> > normal junk.  Is this possibly a screensaver gone
> > bad?