Re: CRASHED MACHINE = FB.overflow:1
On Wed, 29 Nov 2000, Eric G . Miller wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 29, 2000 at 06:27:52PM +0000, Gordon Dykes wrote:
> >
> > After a few minutes on the net my Debian box crashes and I can not
> > work in ANY terminal. I can change between them but they all have
> > the message
> >
> > "FB.overflow:1"
>
> I would interpret that to mean "Frame Buffer Overflow". Something is
> doing bad things with your video (it'd have to be something low-level).
>
> Also possible, there's a problem with your video hardware (bad memory?).
>
> course, I could be interpreting that message incorrectly (never seen it
> before).
To get rid of your problems, I would just Not used FB anymore (check
your /etc/lilo.conf (Documentation about framebuffer ?
/usr/src/linux/Documentation/)), atleast if you don't need it for XFree4
then that's an easy choice (as long as you have x86 hardware that is).
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