On Sun, 4 Mar 2001, Rahul Jindal wrote:
> most of the times, xmms ( :-)) is running when that happens. yes mostly that
Check if your xmms version has any bugs. I use xmms-1.0.1 and it's quite
stable (no crashes or lockups in 2 months). Or maybe some other program
you're running as an applet that is running into loops?
> happens when i run the machine idle.
> APM is enabled. but if it were an APM prob. why would it start happening
> now?
can never say. just a small change in the bios can trigger something
off. The generic kernels nearly never have support for your particular
brand of buggy bios/chipset enabled by default.
by the way can you tell me for how long can i run my box continuously
> without having a pentium tomato of pentium II
I've not used a tomato board, but P-166MMX, PII-333, PIII-800,933, K2-400
can all run more than a month non stop on SiS/VIA/Intel chipsets. But
probably things will vary with brand of the motherboard as the circuits
vary between them even with same chipsets.
> will i have to recompile for disabling APM, never dealt with APM earlier.?
most probably you'll just have to stop apmd from starting up at boot
time. With a laptop you might have had to change the kernel, but probably
that is not necessary for a desktop. Anyway, alernate kernels are probably
there on your installation CD, just change the kernel package to a one
without apm support (or if you prefer wade through hundreds of
yes/no/module choices and make your own kernel). Another test is run in
console mode and check if the machine freezes (and not the least keep a
tab on netscape).
> this machine isn't on the network.
bad luck, wish better luck soon ;-)
\Indraneel
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