Re: X stability issue

2000-03-24 Thread Sven Esbjerg
Hmmm it seems like I have found the root of the probelem. The HPT366 controller-driver in Linux. It seems to lock when triggering an interrupt call to the controller (under special conditions). Programs that tend to trigger this state are Netscape, Mozilla, Blender, CivCTP and so forth. I

Re: X stability issue

2000-03-21 Thread Sven Esbjerg
On Mon, Mar 20, 2000 at 01:51:39PM +0100, Vitux wrote: Sounds like a heat-related problem to me. Make sure the m'b is properly cooled, and fastened properly in the box. The temperature in the case is around 35°C and the CPU's are at 39°C - 40°C. I don't find that to be to much. To be honest I

Re: X stability issue

2000-03-20 Thread Vitux
Sven Esbjerg wrote: to another workstation to kill X remotely. This time it's not enough. I have to reboot the machine to get some new output on the monitor. Now my questions are: Has anyone else experienced the same kind of instability? Does anyone know if this could be due to...

X stability issue

2000-03-19 Thread Sven Esbjerg
Hi I'm wondering how other debian potato-boxes behaves in X. I have a 2 month old potato system running on a dual-celeron, 256Mbyte ram and a Matrox G400. The kernel is a patched 2.2.14 (using the IDE-patch from hedrik). X freezes totally after a few days of use. Sometimes I'm able to go to a

Re: X stability issue

2000-03-19 Thread Oswald Buddenhagen
hi sven, i'm experiencing this kind of freezes, too. i also use kernel 2.2.14, but i'm not running debian (but suse) and use xfree 3.3.5. the programm that causes these freezes _seems_ to be netscape, but who knows for sure ... maybe because i own an abit board, too (it's a bx6) ... I'm

Re: X stability issue

2000-03-19 Thread Bob Nielsen
I'm seeing this with netscape 4.72 (libc6 version), 2.2.14 and xserver-svga 3.3.6-6. If I bring up netscape, click on the location box and start to type, it will freeze every time. If I wait a few seconds after clicking on the box, the vertical cursor line will appear in the box and I can type

Re: X stability issue

2000-03-19 Thread John Hasler
Sven Esbjerg writes: I'm wondering how other debian potato-boxes behaves in X. Mine does. I have a 2 month old potato system running on a dual-celeron, 256Mbyte ram and a Matrox G400. The kernel is a patched 2.2.14 (using the IDE-patch from hedrik). Dual Pentium III, Tyan S1837UANG mb,

Re: X stability issue

2000-03-19 Thread Tommi Komulainen
On Sun, Mar 19, 2000 at 07:58:34PM +0100, Sven Esbjerg wrote: Hi I'm wondering how other debian potato-boxes behaves in X. I have a 2 month old potato system running on a dual-celeron, 256Mbyte ram and a Matrox G400. The kernel is a patched 2.2.14 (using the IDE-patch from hedrik). X

Re: X stability issue

2000-03-19 Thread aphro
this is normal, netscape is trying to resolve some domain names during that point..and i guess because of its single-threadedness(?) that it freezes during resolution(found it when running an strace on the process) happens on every version of netscape/X i have used be it linux libc5 linux libc6,