Re: Problem w. browser when running on SSD

From	Hugo Vanwoerkom <hvw59601@care2.com>
Newsgroups	linux.debian.user
Subject	Re: Problem w. browser when running on SSD
Date	2016-07-08 04:30 +0200
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Sven Arvidsson wrote:
> On Wed, 2016-07-06 at 22:06 -0500, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote:
>> Greetings everybody,
>>
>> This is a newly installed Sid system that has 2 Samsung HD502HJ disks
>> of 
>> 500GB and a Samsung SSD830 of 128GB.
>>
>> It has 2 graphics cards, Model:"nVidia G98 [GeForce 8400 GS Rev. 2]".
>>
>> The reason it is a new install is because I have for years run the 
>> NVidia closed source driver but they dropped support for these cards
>> to 
>> Legacy-940.96, which has problems with the Sid level of the kernel
>> and 
>> the gcc compiler.
>> So I tried to purge the NVidia driver and install nouveau, but was 
>> unable to do so. So I did a new install which installed nouveau when
>> I 
>> installed xorg. It looks and behaves just the way NVidia used to.
>>
>> I usually run on the HD502HJ disks but wanted to see how this new 
>> install would run on the SSD830, so I ran a copy of the new system
>> on 
>> that disk.
>>
>> I run google-chrome-beta as browser and never have any problems on
>> the 
>> HD502HJ. But on the SSD830 I was getting lots of not responding 
>> applications that had to be killed and not responding plugin. It
>> made 
>> the system unusable.
>>
>> The only difference between the 2 systems is the disk on which they
>> run.
>>
>> I have tried to google for this error but was not too successful.
>> The 
>> moment you enter 'nouveau' as a search term it thinks I am a French
>> speaker.
>>
>> Has anybody ever come across this strange behavior? What do you
>> suggest?
>>
>> Hugo.
> 
> Your reasoning is a bit hard to follow. If the only difference is the
> SSD why do you suspect the graphics card at all?
> 
> What exactly is the problem, is it something that is specific to Google
> Chrome?
> 

I'm sorry for the faulty reasoning Sven. I do not suspect the graphics 
card, but have doubts about nouveau. This is the first time with nouveau 
on the SSD. I was there before, but with NVidia closed source drivers 
and I don't remember these sort of problems. But Felix has given a good 
idea to see whether nouveau is at fault.

I only use Google-Chrome and it sometimes puts up a screen when an 
application does not respond anymore and asks whether they should wait 
longer or kill it now. In this case I was getting those screens very 
frequently so that the browser was unusable. Also there were screens 
that the plugin had become unresponsive, should that be killed.

I never see those on the HD502HJ's.

Hugo

Thread

Problem w. browser when running on SSD Hugo Vanwoerkom <hvw59601@care2.com> - 2016-07-07 05:10 +0200
  Re: Problem w. browser when running on SSD Felix Miata <mrmazda@earthlink.net> - 2016-07-07 09:00 +0200
    Re: Problem w. browser when running on SSD Hugo Vanwoerkom <hvw59601@care2.com> - 2016-07-08 04:00 +0200
  Re: Problem w. browser when running on SSD Sven Arvidsson <sa@whiz.se> - 2016-07-07 13:40 +0200
    Re: Problem w. browser when running on SSD Hugo Vanwoerkom <hvw59601@care2.com> - 2016-07-08 04:30 +0200
  Re: Problem w. browser when running on SSD Jörg-Volker Peetz <jvpeetz@web.de> - 2016-07-07 14:30 +0200
    Re: Problem w. browser when running on SSD Hugo Vanwoerkom <hvw59601@care2.com> - 2016-07-08 04:50 +0200
      Re: Problem w. browser when running on SSD Norbert Kiszka <norbert@linux.pl> - 2016-07-11 20:20 +0200

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