Re: apparent crashes persist.

[Jo Shields <jo.shields@comlab.ox.ac.uk>]

A J Stiles wrote:
> On Friday 23 June 2006 14:16, hendrik@topoi.pooq.com wrote:
>   
> > It's been a while now, about five months and I still haven't gor my
> > AMD64 working properly
> > ..... 
> > Evidently, something is hogging some critical resource, possibly the CPU
> > (the usual suspect) but it could also be a networking resource, since
> > that's what the mouse and ssh seem to have in common 
> > ..... 
> > When logged in locally using the X server it crashes.  I suspect a
> > measure of software involvement in the crashes, because when I upgraded
> > the nvidia drivers from 1.0.8756-1 to 1.0.8762-2 and also upgraded the
> > kernel from 2.6.12 to 2.6.15  the crashes became less frequent.
> >     
>
> First thing to try:  get rid of the closed-source nVidia drivers and try using 
> the i-tal "nv" driver instead.  See how the system fares then.

And run your sticks of RAM, one at a time, through memtest, for a good 
24 or so hour run