>
> I've had random problems with Mandrake 8 as well. The worst is that at
> random times the scroll wheel of my mouse stops working in Konqueror. It
> will work in other applications most of the time, but sometimes it dies
> there as well. The only fix is to exit KDE and restart. I've also had random
> lockups as well, although I've been able to ssh into the machine and restart
> X to get it to come back.
>
> Just a question: If you are using Nvidia drivers, are you using the nvidia
> drivers from XFree or from Nvidia itself?
>
> David
Good point, I should have given some more details:
1.2 GHz TBird-C
IWill KK266 with 0416 bios
386 MB CAS3 Mushkin RAM
GeForce2 MX
3ware IDE RAID card with 2x Maxtor 20GB drives
3com NIC (don't recall the exact model)
Ensoniq 1371 PCI sound
CD, CDRW, Zip drives
I'm using XFree86 4.0.3 with the Nvidia drivers built from the source RPMs
I generally use KDE
Eric
BTW: For anybody else using the Iwill KK266 MB (and probably all KT133A based MB)
Make sure that your bios is up to date!
I had serious disk throughput issues before I flashed mine.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Thursday, May 17, 2001 10:02 AM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: [expert] Stability Concerns
>
>
> How is everybody finding the stability of their Mandrake
> 8 boxes? I've been having some problems.
>
> I've had several random lockups while in KDE. Nothing I
> can replicate. Somtimes it locks while I'm doing
> something innocuous (moving mouse, minimizing window),
> sometimes it's locked up over night. When this happens,
> there is no saving it. Keyboard & mouse are completely
> dead, and it won't even respond to a ping over the net.
> This has happened maybe 6 or 8 times total over the past
> 2 or 3 weeks.
>
> I've also had 2 random reboots. Once was over night,
> and the other was during the day while I was at work. I
> had left the box logged in, when I get back the login
> screen is up and last shows a reboot. The box is on a
> UPS, and the other box on that UPS hasn't rebooted.
>
> There is doesn't seem to be anything interesting in the
> logs wrt these incidents.
>
> I'm pretty confident that its not a hardware problem.
> This box was rock-solid with a RedHat 6.2 variant.
>
> Any ideas? Frankly, If I was satisfied with this kind
> of stability, I'd have stuck with windows :-)
> Eric
>
