Re: X11 stability
In my experience, this sounds like a resource conflict. I've also had
about the same problem with nVidia cards using old drivers. The fact
that this problem was also in RedHat, would support my theory.
I think your GFX card conflicts with your audio card (or some other
card). Some specific actions on to the graphics borad freeze the computer.
What you can do is:
-Try looking in your 'dmesg' and 'lspci' outputs how your cards'
resources are configured. The IRQ is important.
-Some broken motherboards can also cause this problem; check your BIOS
and try moving cards around.
-If the computer freezes so that it still answers on pings, and you can
ssh to it, but nothing can be done locally it's probably a GFX problem.
The KDE sound card error can be solved by loading the appropriate
modules for your sound card and adding your user to the 'audio' group.
I dunno about the shutdown thing, though.
hth,
Johan Ehnberg
S Yuval wrote:
Ever since I installed Debian, I have to hard boot at least 3 times a
day, because X windows crashes and hangs the machine. This usually
happens when the system is busy installing programs, or doing some other
resource consuming job in one of the virtual consoles (X itself
included), and I choose to flip between consoles. However, when I used
Red Hat 7.1 and even Red Hat 8.0, I could always use Ctrl-Alt-F1 to get
out to a console and kill the X process, however, now even this is
impossible. May I note that I have experienced this problem both when
using an old 2.4.2 Red Hat kernel and when using the newer 2.4.18 kernel
supplied with Debian.
Another issue is KDE, which locks the system upon startup unless I
switch to terminal mode, let it finish loading, and only then switch
back to X. The official complaint is that my sound card could not be
found. Can this be avoided?
Also, I noticed that when the computer is idle, X shuts down
automatically after some period of time. How can I cancel this option?
--
Johan Ehnberg
johan@ehnberg.net
"Windows? No... I don't think so."
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