On Tue, Nov 3, 2009 at 11:56 AM, <[email protected]> wrote: > I know this is all very vague but I have to start somewhere > I have a PIII pc that served me very well for several years > A month or so ago it started rebooting any time I ran X > I presently have CentOS 5.3 installed > I have tried Ubuntu and Fedora with the same results > X starts and will run normally for about 1 to 10 minutes then reboot > I have a Nvidia AGP card and a ATI PCI card both produce the same results > If I start X on the machine and only access it remotely via ssh it runs > without any problems > I have been using the xorg packages that come with the distributions > Presently 1.1.1-48.52.el5 > Where do I start determining the problem
You should start by looking at X's log file, located at /var/log/Xorg.0.log, and the output of the `dmesg` command. Errors in Xorg.0.log are marked by the line beginning with (EE). Matt _______________________________________________ xorg mailing list [email protected] http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg
