-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Wednesday 27 August 2003 13:40, Alan wrote: > > I'm having total and random freezes... The mouse pointer disappear, the > > keyboard doesn't do anything (not even pressing Caps Lock turns the light > > on or off), can anybody give me any clue of where can I start looking for > > the problem ? > > First off, what sort of hardware do you have? (mb type, chipset, cpu, > speed). Do you have enough cooling? Are you overclocking? > > I had some ugly freezes when I put in a A7N8X (asus nforce2 based MB) > due to lack of support. However, I've been running ac-sources for a > while with 0 problems. I have an Asus A7N8X-Deluxe with 512 MB of RAM 400 MHz and an Athlon XP 2400+ (nforce2 based) with a Geforce FX 5200 video card (but I used the xfree driver for a lot of time and the freezes didn't stop). The freezes reduced on frecuency when I changed the ram, but as the other ram was slower, I had to run as if I had an Athlon XP 1800+ (only one freeze in days while now, I have about 1 or 2 freezes per day). So, you may confirm by experience that you had problems with gentoo-sources (2.4.20) with nforce2 based motherboards ? anyone else had the same problem ?
> Another thing to look at is bad ram. emerge memtest86 and let that run > overnight and see if any errors crop up with your memory. Another > possible problem. I did it, but I couldn't let memtest86 finishe (it takes too long). Do you think there are big chances of it finding a problem in the last tests ? > Personally the two things I've seen that cause linux to crash is are: > - unsupported or partially supported hardware > - bad hardware Are there any changed that wrongly selection at kernel compile may doing something wrong ? (note, due to problems, I don't have power management or ACPI compiled). > What kernel are you running? Maybe try the vanilla or a "newer" (ie: > ac-sources or gaming-sources) and see if maybe it has support for the > hardware that might be causing the problems. I'm using gentoo-sources (2.4.20-r6), I'll try a newer kernel to see what happens. > Run another OS for a while (blashphemy I know) if it's a dual boot box > and see if you have the same problems. Download a Knoppix ISO image and > burn that and boot with it and run it for a while to see if you have the > same problems. This might be harder if your freezes are weekly, and not > more frequent of course :) I used another OS here but I don't remember a freeze in it... of course, I used it for short periods of time. Thanks. - -- Pupeno: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.kde.org - --- Help the hungry children of Argentina, please go to (and make it your homepage): http://www.porloschicos.com/servlet/PorLosChicos?comando=donar -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE/TOPQLr8z5XzmSDQRAhBnAKDSDXMF3cN5YhtjivjDferpdwJPBwCg3Rmk 9qseqKRsqtvbIyOahmTBhZo= =em/7 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
