On Fri, Jun 23, 2006 at 02:24:58PM +0100, Jo Shields wrote: > A J Stiles wrote: > >On Friday 23 June 2006 14:16, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > >>It's been a while now, about five months and I still haven't gor my > >>AMD64 working properly > >>..... > >>Evidently, something is hogging some critical resource, possibly the CPU > >>(the usual suspect) but it could also be a networking resource, since > >>that's what the mouse and ssh seem to have in common > >>..... > >>When logged in locally using the X server it crashes. I suspect a > >>measure of software involvement in the crashes, because when I upgraded > >>the nvidia drivers from 1.0.8756-1 to 1.0.8762-2 and also upgraded the > >>kernel from 2.6.12 to 2.6.15 the crashes became less frequent. > >> > > > >First thing to try: get rid of the closed-source nVidia drivers and try > >using the i-tal "nv" driver instead. See how the system fares then. > > And run your sticks of RAM, one at a time, through memtest, for a good > 24 or so hour run
Well, memtest alias memtester, when asked to test all, allocated 3G of memory -- I only have 2G on my machine, and then failed to lock all of them into physical RAM -- small wonder. Then it got killed. Does it have no mechanism for distinguishing whether it's testing RAM or swap space? -- hendrik > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
