thanks for all the suggestions. i do not have interrupt conflicts, so thta isn't the problem.
this issue seems to be common, altho not widespread amongst the recent distributions, as i've tried Mandrake 8.2, Peanut 9.2, gentoo 1.1a, so it seems to be something new that is causing it. at this stage, i suspect it may be certain kernel parameters of the 2.4.18 kernel. since the earlier distros seem to be working fine. (like Robin Turner has already remarked, it doesn't happen on Mandrake 8.0 with my system too, and our systems don't have much in common in terms of hardware.) when i'm free, hopefully in abt 2 weeks, i'll try to compile a early kernel, with Mandrake 8.2 in console mode, and see if my X will run w/o crashing. (any suggestions? was thinking of 2.4.10 vanilla) the other possiblility may be X 4.2.x, but i doubt it. in the meantime, if anyone else sees any useful info on this topic, pls do post it on this list. thanks again. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Robin Turner" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, May 10, 2002 4:16 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] need help with Mandrake crashing problem > On Friday 10 May 2002 07:33, Stormjumper wrote: > > hello, > > > > got a "small" problem here. > > just installed Mandrake 8.2 on my laptop. > > > > however, after logging in to any graphical UI > > (include KDE and IceWM, Blackbox,) > > the system freezes up totally within seconds of > > running any "real" application, eg xmms, mozilla. > > this is consistent behaviour. > > mouse, kb, sound, CTRL-ALT-BkSp, CTRL-ALT-Del, etc > > all fails. > > > > however, the system is rock stable in non-X console, > > or if i just click around in, say twm, > > w/o opening any applications, i can do that forever > > w/o bringing down the machine. > > > > does anyone know anything i can do to troubleshoot? > > > > my system config is Compaq Armada 3500 laptop, 128mb ram > > P-II 300mhz, ESS1869, Chips and Tech 69000 PCI (2mb) > > Xircom Cardbus Realport Ethernet + Modem. > > I have a similar problem on my PC (P-II 350MHz, 128MB RAM GeForce II, > AWE64 soundcard, everything else bog-standard generic hardware). It > doesn't freeze immediately or consistently (except that opening a > website in Konqueror is guarantedd to freeze it) but will almost > certainly freeze within ten minutes of use (console games seem to be > an exception here). In a few cases it didn't freeze but simply > rebooted itself (oh well, saved me the trouble of leaning over to hit > the restart button). > > I installed 8.2 in Expert mode, then again in standard mode just to > make sure I hadn't done something stupid. Installing the updates > made no difference either, and there was no difference between using > the XF86 and NVIDIA drivers. This machine worked fine "out of the > box" on 8.0 (and, with an older graphics card, on 7.0, 7.2 and RedHat > 6.0). > > Sir Robin > > > > > > > -- > "Bravo Epictetus!" - Epictetus > > Robin Turner > IDMYO, Bilkent Universitesi > Ankara 06533 > Turkey > > http://www.bilkent.edu.tr/~robin > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -------- > Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? > Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com > --
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