On 5 Aug 2000, Jeronimo Pellegrini wrote: pelleg >Pentium II 400 Mhz, pelleg >Motherboard DFI PA61 ATX (VIA Apollo Pro 133 chipset - 693/596b) my current board has that chipset i believe (asus cuv4x)
pelleg >(Absolutely nothing on-board) good pelleg >Award BIOS pelleg >64 Mb RAM (no ECC...) pelleg >Video Card Diamond SpeedStar A50 (SiS 6326 AGP, not on-board) i would replace that if it was mine, although SIS is getting better support all the time. I stick mainly to Nvidia/Matrox/3Dfx cards under linux these days. Also have run the i810. pelleg >HD: Western Digital Caviar, 13.5 Gb, 7200 RPM pelleg > heard bad things about western digital, make sure to turn DMA *OFF* when using it or you may get problems see: http://kt.linuxcare.com/kernel-traffic/latest.epl#2 pelleg >With stable kernels, I use ATA/33 pelleg >With unstable kernels, I managed to get a patch to use ATA/66. ok... pelleg >(I still didn't completely rule out ATA66, but... The system locked pelleg >with a stable kernel (and hence, with ATA33) yeah. pelleg >BTW, I have checked to see if I could find anything related to pelleg >problems with this chipset and HD, but found nothing. see the link above about the hdd. it may not be the source of the problems but it can be the source of many(more serious?) ones. pelleg >Hm, waht about the fact that it only happened after this lock? I pelleg >thought that perhaps this could mean filesystem corruption... that might be the last thing in the log, i dont know how active your system is. wish you had another box on a network with that one to see if you could telnet into it or ping it or something. pelleg >Nothing there... Actually, it jumps from Aug, 4 to Aug, 21:50 (when I pelleg >resetted the machine). And the messages begin with the new pelleg >boot... Nothing in the period in which it crashed. sounds like hardware then. pelleg >I got it from a cousin... It's a "Leadership" mouse, made in China. pelleg >Ordinary 3-button PS/2 mouse, it seems... leadership, havent heard of em but its possible it could cause problems if its not totally compliant witht he PS/2 protocol it could be flaky. change mice and see if it still happens. pelleg >But could this be a problem? I mean... Building the package myself? I pelleg >was confident that the same package compiled by the mantainer could be pelleg >compiled here... You know... We can even do that automatically with pelleg >apt-get... :-) something could cause X to freeze, ive never had it happen with a windowmanager though, i could always CTRL-ALT-BACKSPACE(have you tried this?) if something in X crashes, 3Dfx glide has caused serious hangs and forced reboots but thats about it. pelleg >Actually, I did use 4.0.1 for a few days, and it didn't crash... But pelleg >it may have been too little time. pelleg > pelleg >(I thought this could be a reasonable option, since the code is a lot pelleg >different from that of 3.3.6) it might, im more concerned with how you get the system back to normal after installing XF864.01 (if you want to go back to 3.3.6) it may be difficult to get it working properly again(that may be part of the current problem as well) nate ::: http://www.aphroland.org/ http://www.linuxpowered.net/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] 10:48am up 18 days, 18:15, 1 user, load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00
