This one time, at band camp, Carlos Sousa said:
> On Tue, 16 Jul 2002 12:38:39 -0300 Marcelo Chiapparini
<chiappa@uerj.br>
> wrote:
>
> > On 2002.07.16 12:12 David Z Maze wrote:
> > > 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 ;(.
> > ...
> > May be there is a log file I can read?
>
> Check /var/log/XFree86.0.log, also your ~/xsession-errors.
>
> I had/have a similar problem, and I'm convinced it is caused by X's
> graphics driver for my ATI card, and the crashes were caused by GL
> rendering.
>
> I manage to get a stable system by not using GL screensavers and
staying
> away from GL graphics software and games. I *really* hope X 4.2 can
> address this issue...
Same exact issues here - I can usualy ssh in and cleanly kill off the
X
processes, though. I'm left with nothing in my logs for clues, but I
came to this conclusion after trying to make it freeze for some time
with diferent apps, and deciding that it was GL related.
Oh, and if you really want X 4.2 -
deb http://people.debian.org/~branden/ sid/$(ARCH)/
Have it running on one computer without a snag, but I'm waiting to
move
over the one that's actually having a problem, because it's a little
too
important to fry just now.
Good luck,
Steve