hi sven, i'm experiencing this kind of freezes, too. i also use kernel 2.2.14, but i'm not running debian (but suse) and use xfree 3.3.5. the programm that causes these freezes _seems_ to be netscape, but who knows for sure ... maybe because i own an abit board, too (it's a bx6) ...
> I'm wondering how other debian potato-boxes behaves in X. I have a 2 month old > potato system running on a dual-celeron, 256Mbyte ram and a Matrox G400. The > kernel is a patched 2.2.14 (using the IDE-patch from hedrik). X freezes > totally > after a few days of use. Sometimes I'm able to go to a console and kill X as > root other times it's necessary to log in from another workstation and kill X > remotely - this is due to fact the my keyboard freezes too... > Today it went really awfull. I wanted to try CivCTP on Linux to test the > performance of my box. In the middle of the game everything freezes and I turn > to another workstation to kill X remotely. This time it's not enough. I have > to > reboot the machine to get some new output on the monitor. > > Now my questions are: > Has anyone else experienced the same kind of instability? > Does anyone know if this could be due to... > - kernel instability? > - X instability? > - my hardware? > - potato instability? > > The fact is that I really hate to reboot my machine - it feels like I'm > running > Windows. > X is XFree86 version 3.3.6-6 (svga). Mboard is Abit BP6 (not OC'ed). > -- Hi! I'm a .signature virus! Copy me into your ~/.signature, please! -- Linux - the last service pack you'll ever need.
