Re: X stability issue
hi sven,
i'm experiencing this kind of freezes, too.
i also use kernel 2.2.14, but i'm not running debian (but suse) and use
xfree 3.3.5.
the programm that causes these freezes _seems_ to be netscape, but who
knows for sure ...
maybe because i own an abit board, too (it's a bx6) ...
> I'm wondering how other debian potato-boxes behaves in X. I have a 2 month old
> potato system running on a dual-celeron, 256Mbyte ram and a Matrox G400. The
> kernel is a patched 2.2.14 (using the IDE-patch from hedrik). X freezes totally
> after a few days of use. Sometimes I'm able to go to a console and kill X as
> root other times it's necessary to log in from another workstation and kill X
> remotely - this is due to fact the my keyboard freezes too...
> Today it went really awfull. I wanted to try CivCTP on Linux to test the
> performance of my box. In the middle of the game everything freezes and I turn
> to another workstation to kill X remotely. This time it's not enough. I have to
> reboot the machine to get some new output on the monitor.
>
> Now my questions are:
> Has anyone else experienced the same kind of instability?
> Does anyone know if this could be due to...
> - kernel instability?
> - X instability?
> - my hardware?
> - potato instability?
>
> The fact is that I really hate to reboot my machine - it feels like I'm running
> Windows.
> X is XFree86 version 3.3.6-6 (svga). Mboard is Abit BP6 (not OC'ed).
>
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