Re: X freezes!

[David Z Maze <dmaze@debian.org>]

Marcelo Chiapparini <chiappa@uerj.br> writes:
> I am running woody + gnome 1.4 in an Athlon system. Sometimes, while
> working, X freezes and the only way to get the system back is
> rebooting ;(.

Have you tried killing the X server (Ctrl+Alt+Bksp)?  Switching to
other virtual consoles (e.g. Ctrl+Alt+F1)?  Logging in remotely?

> It is a X issue, because other processes, for example
> the sound, are not affected (I can still listen a CD while when X
> freezes).

That's a poor metric, since the CD player hardware is fairly
autonomous; you tell it "go" and it just plays without any software
support at all.

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