From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.7.12) Gecko/20050922 Fedora/1.0.7-1.1.fc4 Firefox/1.0.7 Description of problem: I have a TYAN S2882-D mobo with two Opteron 250 CPUs, total of 4 Gigs of RAM, 2 Gigs per processor. The video card is a PNY Nvidia FX 5500 (PCI bus, not AGP if that matters). I have tried two sound cards, an Ensoniq 1370 and a Creative Audigy 2 ZS. The problem is the same for either sound card, and doesn't seem to be slot dependent. If not using sound, the system runs for a day or more. I start using audacity, recording or playing back, and after a half minute or so, the entire display freezes up. I can still ping the box, and an ssh from another machine shows the Xserver at 99.9% CPU. If I kill -9 the Xserver, the box restarts X and I can log in. It does the same thing with gcdmaster playing back a wav file. So it looks to be an interaction between X and a sound card. I did an strace on the Xserver, but I'm not sure it is meaningful - it reports a buffer overflow in select, which I've seen listed in another bug as due to tracing a 32-bit app on a 64-bit system. I'll attach the trace anyway in case it is helpful. I can reproduce this 100% of the time on this machine, and I will gladly capture any other data anyone might like to see. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.Start audacity 2.Start recording 3. Actual Results: Screen freezes, Xserver goes to 99.9% CPU Expected Results: No freeze Additional info:
Created attachment 122806 [details] straces of the Xserver
I tried installing the proprietary nvidia driver: NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-1.0-8178-pkg2.run and the problem completely disappears. So, I am currently suspecting the xorg nv driver. Should we persue this bug here, or would you prefer that I move the bug over to the xorg site?
(In reply to comment #2) > I tried installing the proprietary nvidia driver: > > NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-1.0-8178-pkg2.run > > and the problem completely disappears. So, I am currently suspecting the xorg > nv driver. > > Should we persue this bug here, or would you prefer that I move the bug over to > the xorg site? Please file in X.Org bugzilla, and we'll track the issue there. Thanks in advance.
Ok - it is filed in X.org. Here is a link: https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=5833
From upstream bug report: ------- Additional comment #2 from Steve Falco on 2006-03-30 08:04 [reply] ------- Installed the latest Fedora Core 5, with Xorg 7.0.0. This bug appears to be fixed in this version. Closing bug as fixed in "CURRENTRELEASE" of FC5