Glxinfo/glxgears freeze the system like hell

I am running the latest updated Archlinux 64 bit box:
[arnuld@gnu ~]$ pacman -Q mesa
mesa 7.0.1-1
[arnuld@gnu ~]$ pacman -Q xorg-server
xorg-server 1.4-5
I am using openchrome and X runs fine. NO freezes in normals runs but as soon as I type glxinfo or glxgears it freezes the system an I can not do anything. keyboard, mouse all stop responding as if my system is dead, the only solution is Manual Reset button on my cabinet.
[arnuld@gnu ~]$ lspci
00:00.0 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. K8M800 Host Bridge
00:00.1 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. K8M800 Host Bridge
00:00.2 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. K8M800 Host Bridge
00:00.3 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. K8M800 Host Bridge
00:00.4 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. K8M800 Host Bridge
00:00.7 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. K8M800 Host Bridge
00:01.0 PCI bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8237 PCI bridge [K8T800/K8T890 South]
00:0f.0 RAID bus controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VIA VT6420 SATA RAID Controller (rev 80)
00:0f.1 IDE interface: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C586A/B/VT82C686/A/B/VT823x/A/C PIPC Bus Master IDE (rev 06)
00:10.0 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82xxxxx UHCI USB 1.1 Controller (rev 81)
00:10.1 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82xxxxx UHCI USB 1.1 Controller (rev 81)
00:10.2 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82xxxxx UHCI USB 1.1 Controller (rev 81)
00:10.3 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82xxxxx UHCI USB 1.1 Controller (rev 81)
00:10.4 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. USB 2.0 (rev 86)
00:11.0 ISA bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8237 ISA bridge [KT600/K8T800/K8T890 South]
00:11.5 Multimedia audio controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8233/A/8235/8237 AC97 Audio Controller (rev 60)
00:11.6 Communication controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. AC'97 Modem Controller (rev 80)
00:12.0 Ethernet controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT6102 [Rhine-II] (rev 78)
00:18.0 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] HyperTransport Technology Configuration
00:18.1 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] Address Map
00:18.2 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] DRAM Controller
00:18.3 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] Miscellaneous Control
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. S3 Unichrome Pro VGA Adapter (rev 01)
[arnuld@gnu ~]$ cat /etc/X11/xorg.conf
Section "ServerLayout"
Identifier "X.org Configured"
Screen 0 "Screen0" 0 0
InputDevice "Mouse0" "CorePointer"
InputDevice "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
EndSection
Section "Files"
RgbPath "/usr/share/X11/rgb"
ModulePath "/usr/lib/xorg/modules"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/misc"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/100dpi:unscaled"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/75dpi:unscaled"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/TTF"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/Type1"
EndSection
Section "Module"
Load "dri"
Load "glx"
Load "record"
Load "extmod"
Load "dbe"
Load "xtrap"
Load "freetype"
Load "type1"
EndSection
Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Keyboard0"
Driver "kbd"
EndSection
Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Mouse0"
Driver "mouse"
Option "Protocol" "auto"
Option "Device" "/dev/input/mice"
Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5 6 7"
EndSection
Section "Monitor"
Identifier "Monitor0"
VendorName "Monitor Vendor"
ModelName "Monitor Model"
HorizSync 30 - 70
VertRefresh 50 - 160
Option "DPMS"
DisplaySize 269 201 # 96 DPI @ 1024x768
EndSection
Section "Device"
### Available Driver options are:-
### Values: : integer, <f>: float, <bool>: "True"/"False",
### <string>: "String", <freq>: "<f> Hz/kHz/MHz"
### [arg]: arg optional
#Option "PrintVGARegs" # [<bool>]
#Option "PrintTVRegs" # [<bool>]
#Option "I2CScan" # [<bool>]
#Option "VBEModes" # [<bool>]
#Option "NoAccel" # [<bool>]
#Option "AccelMethod" # <str>
#Option "ExaNoComposite" # [<bool>]
#Option "ExaScratchSize" # 
#Option "HWCursor" # [<bool>]
#Option "SWCursor" # [<bool>]
#Option "ShadowFB" # [<bool>]
#Option "Rotate" # [<str>]
#Option "VideoRAM" # 
#Option "ActiveDevice" # [<str>]
#Option "BusWidth" # [<str>]
#Option "Center" # [<bool>]
#Option "PanelSize" # [<str>]
#Option "ForcePanel" # [<bool>]
#Option "TVDotCrawl" # [<bool>]
#Option "TVDeflicker" # 
#Option "TVProgressive" # [<bool>]
#Option "TVType" # [<str>]
#Option "TVOutput" # [<str>]
#Option "DisableVQ" # [<bool>]
#Option "DisableIRQ" # [<bool>]
#Option "EnableAGPDMA" # [<bool>]
#Option "NoAGPFor2D" # [<bool>]
#Option "NoXVDMA" # [<bool>]
#Option "VbeSaveRestore" # [<bool>]
#Option "DisableXvBWCheck" # [<bool>]
#Option "MaxDRIMem" # 
#Option "AGPMem" # 
Identifier "Card0"
Driver "via"
VendorName "Unknown Vendor"
BoardName "Unknown Board"
BusID "PCI:1:0:0"
EndSection
Section "Screen"
Identifier "Screen0"
Device "Card0"
Monitor "Monitor0"
DefaultDepth 24
SubSection "Display"
Viewport 0 0
Depth 1
Modes "1024x768" "800x600"
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Viewport 0 0
Depth 4
Modes "1024x768" "800x600"
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Viewport 0 0
Depth 8
Modes "1024x768" "800x600"
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Viewport 0 0
Depth 15
Modes "1024x768" "800x600"
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Viewport 0 0
Depth 16
Modes "1024x768" "800x600"
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Viewport 0 0
Depth 24
Modes "1024x768" "800x600"
EndSubSection
EndSection
Section "DRI"
Mode 0666
EndSection
[arnuld@gnu ~]$
I found one other thread with the same problem as mine but nobody replied to his 2nd question:
http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=39667
BTW, just out of curiosity , I only watch Bruce Lee's movies and do internet. I do not play games etc. So, is there any use of DRI for me ?

Welcome to the world of Unichrome. Via's integrated graphics chips open gl support in Linux is very poor. I have KM400 and I got GL working with it somehow. When libgl was updated to version 7.0.1 in extra-repo installing it broke the opengl on my system. X simply locked up when ever I tried to start any opengl software. I found from the openchrome.org:
"The 3D driver that complements the openchrome driver can be obtained from the DRI project. For now you should use the Mesa-6.4 branch; the last version known to work sort of reliably is Mesa-6.4.1."
I built libgl, unichrome-dri and mesa -packages with ABS from Mesa-6.4.1-branch and installed latest openchrome -driver from svn. Now opengl with my unichrome chip works pretty "stable". Of course it can't run the latest opengl -stuff but atleast I can run Blender with my laptop.

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6166 eyolf /usr/lib/gvfs/gvfsd 0 816.0K 920.0K 3.5M
10819 eyolf /bin/bash /usr/bin/yaourt i 0 968.0K 968.0K 980.0K
6185 eyolf /usr/lib/gvfs/gvfsd-fuse /r 0 1.0M 1.0M 1.1M
8255 eyolf htop 0 1.1M 1.1M 2.6M
6148 eyolf /usr/bin/dbus-daemon --fork 0 1.0M 1.2M 2.5M
8251 eyolf -zsh 0 1.7M 1.7M 1.7M
9419 eyolf zsh 0 1.7M 1.7M 1.7M
12072 eyolf zsh 0 1.7M 1.7M 1.7M
9141 eyolf zsh 0 1.7M 1.7M 1.7M
9321 eyolf zsh 0 1.7M 1.7M 1.7M
11853 eyolf zsh 0 1.7M 1.7M 1.7M
11064 eyolf zsh 0 1.8M 1.8M 1.8M
18564 eyolf zsh 0 2.0M 2.0M 2.1M
6204 eyolf /usr/lib/gvfs/gvfs-udisks2- 0 2.1M 2.3M 5.3M
12359 eyolf zsh 0 1.7M 2.4M 5.4M
13214 eyolf zsh 0 1.7M 2.4M 5.6M
11996 eyolf /usr/lib/gvfs/gvfsd-http -- 0 3.1M 3.1M 3.2M
6248 eyolf /usr/lib/gvfs/gvfsd-trash - 0 3.4M 3.5M 6.7M
25054 eyolf /usr/bin/pulseaudio --start 0 4.1M 5.2M 9.2M
3832 eyolf mocp 0 5.3M 5.3M 5.4M
15345 eyolf python2 /usr/bin/smem -kt 0 9.6M 9.8M 12.1M
9225 eyolf /usr/bin/python -O /usr/bin 0 13.8M 13.8M 13.8M
6226 eyolf /usr/lib/mate-polkit/polkit 0 14.5M 14.7M 17.9M
13216 eyolf /usr/bin/python -O /usr/bin 0 13.7M 14.8M 20.0M
6140 eyolf mate-session 0 14.7M 14.9M 19.1M
6272 eyolf /usr/lib/mate-panel/notific 0 14.7M 15.1M 21.2M
6216 eyolf mate-screensaver 0 15.1M 15.2M 17.7M
12074 eyolf /usr/bin/python -O /usr/bin 0 16.1M 16.8M 19.4M
11855 eyolf vim 0 17.3M 17.3M 17.4M
9421 eyolf vim 0 17.3M 17.3M 17.4M
6222 eyolf mate-power-manager 0 17.0M 17.5M 23.8M
6218 eyolf mate-volume-control-applet 0 17.1M 17.6M 22.9M
6270 eyolf /usr/lib/mate-panel/clock-a 0 17.9M 19.1M 29.4M
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9285 eyolf /usr/bin/python -O /usr/bin 0 20.6M 21.2M 24.0M
6268 eyolf /usr/lib/mate-panel/wnck-ap 0 20.5M 21.3M 31.8M
6159 eyolf marco 0 21.3M 22.9M 33.2M
6227 eyolf nm-applet 0 21.9M 23.3M 29.3M
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15250 eyolf /usr/bin/gvim -f /tmp/vimpe 0 21.4M 26.9M 60.1M
9315 eyolf mate-terminal 0 26.1M 27.7M 39.9M
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6164 eyolf mate-panel 0 31.0M 31.8M 40.6M
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6261 eyolf mono /usr/lib/gnome-do/Do.e 0 94.8M 95.5M 105.8M
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12638 eyolf /usr/lib/firefox/plugin-con 0 118.7M 134.2M 179.2M
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Can Time Machine freeze the system?

Hello,
Twice in the last month or so, Time Machine has apparently frozen my iMac while trying to find my external USB drive. Both times, all applications and the finder froze, although I could still maneuver the mouse (could not click on anything). Force Quit would not work and worse, powering off and powering on would not force a reboot -- the same frozen screen would reappear.
After a lot of investigation the first time, I realized that the Time Machine menu button had stuck in place and my external LaCie drive was not responding. I also found that when I tried Force Quit, I saw a process listed -- backupd-helper -- for a short period of time that helped point me to a Time Machine issue. Both times, the only solution was to turn off the external drive.
Normally, Time Machine works great with this drive. I leave it on and it does its thing every hour. I think the drive is formatted correctly (GUID), with only one partition, and it checks out ok with drive utility, so I'm not sure the drive is the issue.
Perhaps someone here has experienced the same kind of odd behavior? Or could point me to a log file to review for possible evidence of what's going on? It seems like the drive mounts most of the time as required, but for some reason has failed to on these two occasions.
Thanks for any help!

Folks;
I am new to this board but I have experienced a similar problem and thought I would pass along what I THINK has solved the problem.
I purchased a new 27" imac about three weeks ago. At the same time I also purchased a "g drive mini" (500mg) that I used as a back drive to use with Time Machine. Over those three weeks my imac froze about 6 times and this seemed to happen during Time Machine back ups. I would get a message about "calculating changes" and the machine would freeze at that point for many hours (often during overnight hours) - forcing a hard shut down of the imac.
After researching the internet for a solution, one suggestion I found was to turn off "sleep mode" for the comouter and ALSO turn off "put hard disks to sleep when possible". These can both be found in the Preferences section of your mac.
I made these changes on Wednesday evening (6-1-2011) and the machine has backed up every hour since then (now 6-3-2011) with no problems.
So, having said all of that, I think the turning off of the the two sleep modes has done the trick.
Apparently, when the computer and/or hard disks are asleep, Time Machine cannot always wake them up and do a back up to the external drive. I plan to let the machine run through the weekend and see if I have any more problems - but so far - so good.
Matt

Video will not open OS 10.6.8 Safari 5.1.10, youtube page freezes the system. Activity moniy=tor shows all memory being used up, but processor use is very low

Video will not open. OS 10.6.8, safari 5.1.10. problem is very noticeable when opening youtube main page. stalls complete system. tried reloading most recent version of flash. Activity monitor identifies all memory is being used to open page, no processor usage and transfer rate does not look out of line. 4 GB memory. Macbookpro6.2, i5, 2.4 GHz. Individual Video will open in facebook. Some video will not open in Yahoo.

Video will not open. OS 10.6.8, safari 5.1.10. problem is very noticeable when opening youtube main page. stalls complete system. tried reloading most recent version of flash. Activity monitor identifies all memory is being used to open page, no processor usage and transfer rate does not look out of line. 4 GB memory. Macbookpro6.2, i5, 2.4 GHz. Individual Video will open in facebook. Some video will not open in Yahoo.

Arch Linux freezes the whole system in VMware

Hi,
I use Windows Vista as main OS and I'm trying to install Arch on VMware, the problem is, when I log in into the console and try to type anything else, it will crash my host system (Vista).
This is very weird because:
a) I'm running a virtual Gentoo on VMware and it doesn't freeze as Arch.
b) Arch Linux doesn't freeze the system if I use VirtualBox instead of VMware
c) I did a clean install of XP (just for testing purposes) and virtual Arch also crashed the system.
This is confusing me because:
a) Why does Gentoo work and Arch doesn't? Are there base configurations/software so different that one works and the other doesn't?
b) Why can VirtualBox handle Arch and VMware can't?
c) Even a clean install can't handle Arch on VMware? Does this mean it's something wrong in my hardware? How come if Gentoo works on VMware and VirtualBox handles Arch?
Please note that I can't use VirtualBox, I must use VMware and I would really like to use Arch instead of Gentoo. I'm trying to ditch Gentoo and use Arch but this problem is leaving me no choice than to keep using Gentoo...
Any ideas?

Ranguvar wrote:Is it that you can't use VBox, or you must use VMware? There are still other virtual machine apps.
I know, but I want to use VMware. I don't like VirtualBox that much and VMware is better for me. The other virtual machine apps don't even come close to VMware, at least in my point of view. But it doesn't matter, I want to use VMware.
Ranguvar wrote:Anyways, is it the Arch install CD that crashes, or is it Arch after it has been installed? Have you read http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Ins … _in_VMWare ?
After installation, it never crashed during the install as far as I remember.
Ranguvar wrote:Do you get any specific error messages from Windows? Are you using the latest version of VMware? Can you at least try VirtualBox to help isolate the problem?
No specific error messages, nothing in the log files, there's nothing anywhere... Yes, I'm using the latest version. What do you mean try VirtualBox to help isolate the problem? I've already used VirtualBox, installed Arch fine and it didn't freeze.
Ranguvar wrote:This is very odd, and may actually indicate a problem with hardware, or something... a virtual machine should NOT be able to bring down the host, under any circumstances. If it can, both the OS and the virtual machine are bugged. Not too much of a surprise, but yeah.
My thoughts exactly but how can be an hardware problem if VirtualBox works just fine? How can it be a virtual machine problem if Gentoo works fine on VMware?
fumbles wrote:Sounds like a problem with VMware (or maybe Vista?) not Arch. Try reinstalling VMware, make sure it is at the lastest version (maybe try even roll back to the previous version), make sure Vista is updated. When you say crash, do you mean BSoD? Or does it just freeze? If it is a BSoD then what is the specific error?
It just freezes, not a BSOD. It is not a problem with Vista because it also happens on XP. Like I said on my first post, I did a clean install of XP, update all drivers and did all Windows updates, installed latest VMware version and the same thing still happened.
Joe_Arch wrote:How much ram are you allocating to Arch? Counterintuitively, you might want to try lowering it. If you allocate too much your host OS freaks out.
I have 2Gb (2x1024Mb) installed on my laptop and I'm using just 256Mb for Arch.
jacko wrote:someone else was having this issue the other day on irc. the fact is a guest OS should NEVER even come close to crashing the host OS. So more then likely this is a bug in VMware and not arch. What arch packages that is causing the conflict with VMware is unapparent, but it's not likely a bug arch can fix.
That was me... I'm not saying it's a bug on Arch, but it's weird that Gentoo doesn't have a problem and Arch does. They must differ somehow, one must use some package where the other doesn't or some global system configuration is different from one to the other, there must be some difference, otherwise, they both would freeze or they both would work...

512MB of RAM and Widgets...can it make the system completely freeze?

Noticing a very sluggish response on my Mac Mini I realize that memory is an issue with MS Office and such using Safari with iCal in the background.
My Mac does a complete freeze, no force quit no toggle when I hit F12 (widgets) retrieving widgets while an app is running will freeze the system it has occurred twice in one day.
I use a maintenance tool to run cron jobs, optimize safari, updated prebinding, check S.M.A.R.T disk and all is fine.
Looking for more avenues...
I am on the fence on adding more memory because of the processor chip and wanting to go to Leopard shortly..
I may just have to backup and live with this problem...

The folder and question mark at startup is an indicator that no valid MacOS install was found to boot from. Usually it means the system can't find the internal drive or the internal drive wasn't correctly recognized. In a normally functional and correctly configured Mac, this is a rare thing, but it can happen if, for example, the system is usually booted from an external drive, but the external is disconnected or powered down.
However, it can also be caused by an error in the system management controller, where an SMC reset will usually resolve it. It may have been this in your case, since although you may not have intentionally performed an SMC reset, the disconnection of power and other devices is essentially the same thing!
Just check that the startup disk preference pane has the internal drive selected, and as long as there is a valid MacOS install on that, this problem should not recur.

I ERASEd WINDOWS. I want to re-install it and before, i'd'like to re-install all the system (10.6.7). But that seems to be impossible. When i try to turn on with the softare and pushing "c", blind screen. When i turn on it normaly, nothing happened. pls,

I ERASEd WINDOWS. I want to re-install it and before, i'd'like to re-install all the system (10.6.7). But that seems to be impossible. When i try to turn on with the softare and pushing "c", blind screen. When i turn on it normaly, and put the disc after, the process begins and stops 5 minutes after. The computer turns off. Has someone an idea to help me ? Thanks by advance.
Zach

Thank you for your answer.
And...Yes, i did : i inserted the install disc and started up holding the C key. Many time. But each time, the logo of install disc appeared during ten minutes and then, during the installation, he disappeared suddenly with no reason. And in the same time the computer turn off.
The beginning of the storry : my son made long time ago (a year) the partition between Mac and Windows. Everything was fine.
Recently, He decided to give more memory space to windows.
He could do that directly (perhaps, was there a way but he did'nt know it)
For this reason, he decided to desinstall Windows in a first step before reinstalling it.
But before doing this, he decided to re install all the system, like for cleaning his computer...and then, since, it's a big mess.
You know everythin now.
Could you help us ?
Thanks by advance.

How to create a 'System'variable to identify the system from merged dimension

Hi,
I have a webi report with merged dimensions on users and
roles. Users and Roles are coming from 3 different systems (ECC,BW,BOBJ). Now,
I don’t have the system field available in the queries to filter by the system.
So, I would like to create a variable for system where I want to be able to
identify the system (like ECC,BW,BOBJ) based on the merged “Role” dimension.
Could someone tell me , if it is possible to do that? And if so, how do I do
that? (I tried, but it's not working for me) I really appreciate your help.
Thanks,
Charvi.

HI,
You can not use inlist operator here.For inlist static values are required for comparison.I know this is not a solution for you.
For to use match operator you have to use multiple else-if conditions.I know this is time consuming but if you can not do anything from BW side then use like below formula.
=If(Match([Role];"FRP.*")) Then "ECC" ElseIf (Match([Role];"HRP.*")) Then "ECC" else"BW"
Add more conditions in the formula and if you are sure in your report there are only three type of roles.Then define condition only for ECC and BW systems in the variable and rest mark as else BO.
Thanks,
Amit

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