Here are my two cents:

Linux 7.1 on
1.3 GHz Athlon
ECS K7S5A Motherboard
1024 mb ram
Matrox G450

I have been experiencing the exact same lockups. I have upgraded the kernel 
to 2.4.19 and installed the XFree4.2 from the sources. Everything was 
recompiled for athlon. Everything seemed ok for a while, but then it locked 
up again just yesterday when I was logging in. Right after the xdm login 
screen disappeared, but before the desktop had a chance to appear... The 
root partition ended up being badly damaged, I am assuming as a result of 
the hard reset. The lockup must've happened at some critical point?

Actually, I did noticed that usually there is a whole lot more filesystem 
damage in the result of  the X lockup than, for example, when the computer 
goes off because of a power blackout. It happened to me several times (I 
don't have the UPS). In fact, there is this one error that I only get after 
the lockup. I can't remember exactly what it says, but it's something along 
the lines that several files (not links to files) end up pointing at the 
same cluster on the hard drive, so it asks if I want to duplicate the 
cluster.  Those would usually be the files that I had open at the time of 
lockup...

I had these lockups with 2.4.16 and XFree4.1, too.


Igor.



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