R Garth Wood wrote: > > Here's my predicament. > Of late my system has been crashing while in graphics mode. > Text mode seems fine(well it hasn't crashed in text mode, yet). > Windows crashes too(more than usual) but the hw mouse cursor still > works. I can't say for sure if these crashes are related. > > In 2.0.35 and 2.1.125 the results are the same. > The screen locks up and once the pending disk actions have > subsided the machine grinds to a halt. I know the cpu isn't > being used because the fan pitch changes when the cpu is being > used heavily(whoever thought that might come in handy?). > Also the ifconfig command hangs for about 5 seconds, taking > up 100% of the idle cpu and then spits out the correct > output. The crashes are (as yet) non-reproduceable. > I'm using softdog but that doesn't work either. > > This machine is 2 years old and has crashed about > 10 times(in linux that is) until a week ago, where it's crashed about 20 > times. > > Well, I'm at a loss here. I think it's time for new hardware. > But what hardware? I have no idea what's funked up here. > > The only thing I can think of that I was playing with a week > ago was the new 2.1.125 (frame buffers) and I set the bios > to auto-detect hds instead of manual detect.
Do you have a NON-intel mobo? Like one with the ACER Labs Chipset?
On such a beast I was getting some goofy things too.
One time it was quite similar to the above symptom. I disabled
"PCI bus optimization (Experimental) in kernel config,
Made a new kernel and it has not occurred again.
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