On Saturday 25 May 2002 04:56 pm, Jeferson Lopes Zacco wrote:
> I'm sadly experiencing a lot of freezes in my LM 8.1 box. I just
> hope I won't have to give up saying that "Linux does not hang" to
> my buddies, but right now it's kind of difficult. I'm having daily
> hang-ups.
>
> Here goes a quick summary of my system :
> Linux Mandrake 8.1, using ext3, on a (somewhat problematic I know)
> A7V133 with a Duron 800 (not overclocked).
> 2 sticks of Micron PC133 (256+128)
> TNT2M64 AGP :^(, XFree 4.0.3, latest Nvidia binary drivers
> kernels 2.4.8-26mdk, 2.4.8 (recompiled), 2.4.18 (stock Linus
> kernel)
I'd start with reseating cards, ram, cables, etc. Clean out any
dust. Leave the case cover off and point a table fan into the box.
Then boot a memtest86 floppy and test your ram. Often freeze ups are
caused by poor connections, ram, or running too hot. If the ram
passes and the system doesn't freeze with a table fan blowin into it,
you probly need to improve case coolin. Heat was the problem.
If you still have freezes the next thing I'd try is renaming
XF86Config-4 to somethin like XF86Config-4-nvidia, and enable the
original XF86Config-4 to use the nv driver. You don't need to
uninstall the nvidia GLX and kernel packages. Just see if the
freezes stop when you use the open source driver. If they do, then
the nvidia binaries are the problem. Are you usin ones that were
built against the kernel you're usin 'em with?
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