On Wed, 29 Nov 2000, Eric G . Miller wrote: > On Wed, Nov 29, 2000 at 06:27:52PM +0000, Gordon Dykes wrote: > > > > After a few minutes on the net my Debian box crashes and I can not > > work in ANY terminal. I can change between them but they all have > > the message > > > > "FB.overflow:1" > > I would interpret that to mean "Frame Buffer Overflow". Something is > doing bad things with your video (it'd have to be something low-level). > > Also possible, there's a problem with your video hardware (bad memory?). > > course, I could be interpreting that message incorrectly (never seen it > before).
To get rid of your problems, I would just Not used FB anymore (check your /etc/lilo.conf (Documentation about framebuffer ? /usr/src/linux/Documentation/)), atleast if you don't need it for XFree4 then that's an easy choice (as long as you have x86 hardware that is).
