On Mon, 24 Jun 2002, Dave Fletcher wrote: > I don't know if this helps, but may as well describe > the crash itself. On an "init 5" in redhat 7.2, the > system freezes almost instantly. I can sometimes type > in a few characters of my login, and then I get pixel > garbage and hard lockup. On mandrake 8.1 and 8.2 (BTW, > I also tried the old 3.x.x version of X that mandrake > can install) I can get further... I can login and work > for about 4-5 minutes, sometimes longer if I'm lucky, > and then same thing... pixel garbage and hard freeze.
> One last thing... this problem is just now manifesting > itself after about a full year of total system > stability. I was forced to reinstall the OS due to an > unrelated disk problem. The OS is now installed on a > completely different disk. Did you add a new disk ? I'm wondering if you have some sort of conflict (interrupts?) between the new disk and the graphics card ? -- Dr. Andrew C. Aitchison Computer Officer, DPMMS, Cambridge [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.dpmms.cam.ac.uk/~werdna _______________________________________________ Xpert mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xpert
