* Mario Olimpio de Menezes (mario@curiango.ipen.br) [010621 11:24]: > On Thu, 21 Jun 2001, Vineet Kumar wrote: > > > I have the same setup and have, in the past, experienced similar > > display lockups. (Note: Are you sure the keyboard and mouse stop > > working? Maybe just the display is locking up so it feels like they're > > well, the kb doesn't answer to Crtl+Alt+Backspace, that should kill X. Sure, but maybe the video isn't redisplaying at all. If it is a bug with the nvidia driver, something like that could happen. Worse still, it probably could cause the machine to freeze entirely. One of the easier ways of figuring out which is happening is to test the machine's life via the network (i.e. ping it, ssh to it). I'll admit there are a number of bad sites on the web these days, but any time viewing a web page crashes something on your end, you know something's wrong. A web browser that crashes when viewing certain sites is buggy, and a video driver that crashes when attempting certain displays (most likely a gl thing) is buggy too (or rather, not robust at best). These programs should be written so that no form of bad input can disrupt their normal operations; they should happily reject it and continue merrily along. I'll try to check out the same site later on (not right now; I'd hate it if it were to crash while I have real processes crunching in the background!) and let you know if I can duplicate it. Vineet > > I believe there's something with the BxBoards website; I'm using > netscape now for +1h, went to several sites without problem; > > the Bxboards url is: http://www.bxboards.com > > when I tried the Motherboard section on the right of the page, > inside a rectangle, boom! Maybe there is something related with java > or some other plugin because konqueror crashed exactly at the same > point. > > thanks for you answer! > > []s, Mario O.de Menezes "Many are the plans in a man's > heart, but IPEN-CNEN/SP is the Lord's purpose that > prevails" http://curiango.ipen.br/~mario Prov. 19.21 >
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