Re: KDE crashes unpredictably on Asus 2400B
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On Wednesday 19 March 2003 07:57, Roberto Vallone wrote:
> did you try to telnet on your system. It seems an X crash, so kernel and
> other applications would be perfectly "alive"
The system doesn't answer to network queries any more. It also works its fan
more than it would under normal -- even CPU intensive -- operation. It looks,
as if it was seriously hung.
> > I am using Ralph Nolden's Woody backport of KDE3.1 and XFree4.2 from Sid,
> > as 4.1 doesn't have a suitable display driver. The same thing happened
> > with a XFree4.3 backport and different minor versions of the KDE3
> > packages. It has not happened while kdm was displaying a login, or with
> > twm at all.
>
> if your system has a SiS630/SiS730 chipset (as I think) look at
> http://www.winischhofer.net (but perhaps you always know it)
It has a Radeon mobility chipset. With Xfree 4.2 and up it works fine --
unless I also run KDE.
> > In the logs under /var/log I didn't find anything unusual after such a
> > crash. Main memory seems to be working well enough that memtester86
> > doesn't find any fault with it after a night. The kernel compiles fine
> > several times in a row, so nothing blatant seems to be wrong with the
> > hardware.
>
> perhaps some kde daemon go in loop after a period. I experienced some
> problems with arts (on a sis730 chipset): try to disable it.
Will try that.
> > I am a bit lost as to what I can try next. Any help would be appreciated.
>
> I hope it helps
Thanks
Jan
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