Thanks for the information, John.
I left my computer turned on tonight while I went out for supper, and sure
enough, when I came back it was hung. Well, not quite hung. There was zero
activity going on in gkrellm, however when I moved my mouse the pointer moved
about 1/2 an inch and then it was dead.
Frankly I don't know what to do anymore. I have researched this problem to
death and I'm really running out of ideas. I have tweaked the RAM settings in
my BIOS and adjusted the AGP aperature size - all to know avail. Thinking that
it was X was really my last straw because I don't know what else it can be as I
do not recall having this problem when I was running 3.3.6.
Unfortunately, nothing in any of the logs turns up anything.
My some other people reading this might have some ideas. Here's my current
configuration:
AMD Athlon 700Mhz CPU
256Mhz PC100 RAM
Microstar 6167 motherboard w/Award BIOS (latest revision level)
UDMA33 configured through hdparm
Linux Mandrake 7.1
XFree 4.0 w/last Nvidia beta drivers
Aureal 8830 PCI sound card w/tweaked drivers
Thanks...
-Chris
On Mon, 12 Jun 2000, you wrote:
> You can relink /usr/X11R6/bin/X (which points to XFree86) so that it
> points to whichever server you use(ie XF86_SVGA). Or you can run XSetup
> or Xconfigure(anything but xf86config) should point X back to a 3.3.6
> version. But I'd check /var/log/xdm_error.log to see if it is the
> XFree86. I'm using 4 that came with the 7.1 beta, and it hasn't given me
> any trouble. In fact, I'd never go back to 3.3.6 because my 3d
> performance with the new tnt driver rocks!
>
> John Kim
> Linux System Engineer @ ASL - visit us as www.aslab.com
>
> On Mon, 12 Jun 2000, Necrotica wrote:
>
> > I can't take it anymore!!
> >
> > I have been trying to troubleshoot an extremely frustrating problem. For
> > no apparent reason at all, Linux has just been hanging solid on me every
> > now and then. I'm thinking that PERHAPS its not the machine thats hanging
> > (there aren't any mesages in /var/log messages or /var/log/syslog but
> > rather it might be XFree 4.0. I installed 4.0 when I did a fresh install
> > of Mandrake 7.1.
> >
> > I have to try it. How can I (easily) revert back to 3.3.6 in 7.1? If
> > anyone could tell me I'd appreciate it. Thanks...
> >
> > -Chris
> >
> >
