Since plugging in my new 21" Mitsubishi monitor, my Linux machine is now crashing very frequently. My wife tells me that it locked up 3 times today - she was trying to send an email or two, and never succeeded.
I was trying to send an email just now, and it also froze. Running at the time would have been 3 X sessions - one each for me and my wife on the console, and one for her Windows machine. This is the same system I was having trouble with until I replaced the 250W power supply with a 300W power supply. Since then it's been rock solid. The system was locked up solid - no cursor in X, couldn't kill X, a login from another PC was also dead. No message whatsoever in /var/log/messages - no weird errors at all. Looking through it, I see that it crashed at 4:02 am, 10:54, 17:56, and 22:59. Any suggestions? I guess I'm using a bit more memory, since we're running at 1600x1200 res, but even so ... At the moment X is sitting on 61MB, RSS 11MB, and there's 128MB free memory. Swap partition is small - 256MB. The monitor is plugged in from a separate power point to the computer, though very nearby (it's one of those twin socket wall ones). I'm at a bit of a loss here. The only thing I can think to try is to change to my old X config file and put the old monitor back and see what happens. But for the sake of my back, I'll leave that until tomorrow. (This monitor is *heavy*.) Any suggestions? Thank god I'm using the ext3 file system - otherwise the fscks would be killing us. luke -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
