Kevin Jude wrote:
> I have been having problems with system lock ups in XFree86 and KDE while
> running Netscape 4.05 and StarOffice 4.0 sp3. I believe that I have
> eliminated the Netscape problems by adding the -install modifier to the
> command line, but I still have frequent crashes in star office (How
> frequent? I reboot and use Office 97 when I need a more "stable"
> environment...) Usually the system locks up completely, and I have to do
> a cold boot to get it going again, but sometimes star office just kills
> itself. I have tried starting X using:
> # startx --bpp 8 (Is this the right syntax?)
> and switching down to 800x600 resolution, but these don't seem to help.
> Relevant system info:
> AMD K6-2 266, 48MB RAM, 51MB swap
> S3 Trio 32 video card, 2MB RAM
I am using the same programs, with a Pentium 200 with 64 Megs of ram, and I
have no problems. A few weeks ago, I had 32 Megs, and although slow,
everthing were running well. Netscape was never stable in my system, but
never locked up the machine.
I believe it is a hardware problem - and most probably a RAM oriented
problem. We had lots of such problems before, customers complaining about
running some programs perfectly and lock ups in a specific program. All
these turned out to be memory problems (we never found what is the problem,
but the problems dissapear after changing the memory chips).
Just an idea...
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> TIA
>
> Kevin Jude "Man is a mammal: he bears his young
> North Avenue live and suckles them at his breasts."
> Trade School --Jesse
