Hello.
I encounter serious crashes with XFree 4.1.0 [1].
The screen freezes, the system won't respond to anything, even running
processes seem to stop (concluded from the fact that
hard-disk-activities during a long compile suddenly stopped during the
last crash. -- the compile was started from a tty). Even the
power-button won't work anymore: I have to pull out the electric cable
and remove the battery temporarily in order to reboot. Those crashes
occur quite regularly. But I cannot figure out any pattern. Therefore
I cannot induce them by intention.
A friend in my local Linux-User-Group told me, that he encountered the
same phenomenon. He told me that he got rid of the problem after he
disabled the VESA Framebuffer for the text console in the kernel.
Indeed I have the VESA Framebuffer activated to get a higher
resolution and nicer fonts on a text console. But to disable it is no
option for me, because I work most of my time on the text console
(using X only occasionally). And the pure text mode is ugly.
I would appreciate any hint for a solution or a workaround. Even a
hint for the cause of the problem without solution would be valuable.
--oliver
Footnotes:
[1] Further System-information: Linux From Scratch (Linux 2.4.9,
glibc 2.2.1, gcc 2.95.2.1) on a Notebook (Intel Celeron, S3 Virge MX+
(... alt least nominally)); self-compiled XFree (no changes, no
optimization, simply 'make World').
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