On Friday 30 May 2003 5:32 pm, James Sparenberg wrote: > On Fri, 2003-05-30 at 07:24, H.J.Bathoorn wrote: > > On Wednesday 28 May 2003 23:43, H.J.Bathoorn wrote: > > > On Wednesday 28 May 2003 22:07, Lyvim Xaphir wrote: > > > > Peeps, > > > > > > > > There have been an alarming number of system freezes here > > > > recently, and > > > > > > My gui works a little more stable since I use the non-fb boot > > > option so I'll keep a lookout for error messages as of now. > > > So actually my gut feeling says: XFree86-4! > > > > > > Anyway, I'm not upgrading any of my other machines before I'm > > > sure though. > > > > > > Good luck, > > > HarM > > > > Just to add to my own mail:o) > > > > Been booting, running and testing for a few days now. > > Not booting in framebuffer resolves all my "lock ups" system > > freezes. > > > > I'll be moving (i.e upgrading) onto my laptop tonight, there's > > certain to be some troubles lurking in the dark there. > > I'll agree that 4.3 seems to be troublesome. It feels as if it > supports less in the way of video cards than 3.3.6 does! even less > than 4.2.1, but that could be imagination not scientific fact. I > have also found that using the tips and tricks from the DRI guys > Gatos and all really helps with ATI cards. > > James
While on the subject of lockups, the only problem I've had is when trying to use my filmscanner - for which 9.1 says it has a driver. I changed to the multimedia kernel, but the same thing happened there. Sooner or later I will try a later kernel. What I would really like to do is to close everything I can, then set something going that would cause an orderly shutdown in, say 5 minutes which would be no problem if was ok, but would get me out of a crash. Logically, though, if I have a situation where neither mouse nor keyboard is responding, I presume that it means there is a runaway process that is taking all resources, so it wouldn't work. Is that right? Anne
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