Hi,
As suggested I tried the soft cursor option, the machine was up
for one whole day. But I am still not very confident. But untill I don't
face the problem again, I can't comment. Actually I have win 98 too and my
room mate is interested in the games which are available on yahoo for WIN.
So don't get a chance to keep the machine up in Linux continuosly for 2 3
days. But since the lockups are very random, I am ready to take them even
minutes after boot. So till now, all is well.
Meanwhile I wonder if any active X developer has looked into these
problems? Hoping to hear from one of them....
Regards,
Mukhben.
On Sat, 16 Nov 2002, Igor Filippov wrote:
> 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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