Re: [Newbie]total system-crash (conflict with VESA Fb?)

[TD - Sales International Holland B.V.]

Err on ATX if your powerbutton doesn't respond just keep it pressed for 6
seconds or so, you'll system WILL turn off then.

regards

----- Original Message -----
From: "J" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Sent: Friday, September 07, 2001 4:26 PM
Subject: Re: [Newbie]total system-crash (conflict with VESA Fb?)


>
> Smells like a hardware problem.
> One of:
>
> a) Overheating or
> b) Bus timing issue or something.
>
> The reason being is that you say the power button won't work, and the
crashes
> are random-like. Does it responds to a reset? This is an NMI to the CPU
which
> cannot be masked or blocked, so if that does not work, it has to be
> a hardware problem, and I'd be suspicious of an overheating CPU.
>
> Try poking around in your BIOS and alter some of the timing - wait-states
etc.
> Keep a note of every change you make. Make one change at a time, then
test.
> If you have an alternative video-card to try, see if it is on the Linux
> hardware compatibility list and try changing that. I've heard that video
> cards can cause quite a few issues.
>
> Jeremy
>
> On Fri,  7 Sep 2001 20:28, you wrote:
> > 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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