on the other hand, it might be nice to know what happens when you are "froze" 
what actions do you take to shut down? and what is the results of 
ctrl+alt+f2? or ctrl+alt+Backspace? might also be related to the IRQ, and 
maybe the irq for USB (since the default kernal in 8.0 handles USB a little 
less forgiving than in kernals after, and was not included (much) in  kernals 
before 8.0. (really 2.4. vs 2.2.x). you may also be having a timeout freeze 
with a misconfigured service. 

like the robot on lost in Space..... " need more input"

so if you could read and quote " cat /proc/interrupts" (with out the quotes 
of course)

On Sunday 26 May 2002 10:41 am, you wrote:
> On Saturday 25 May 2002 04:56 pm, Jeferson Lopes Zacco wrote:
> > I'm sadly experiencing a lot of freezes in my LM 8.1 box. I just
> > hope I won't have to give up saying that "Linux does not hang" to
> > my buddies, but right now it's kind of difficult. I'm having daily
> > hang-ups.
> >
> > Here goes a quick summary of my system :
> > Linux Mandrake 8.1, using ext3, on a (somewhat problematic I know)
> > A7V133 with a Duron 800 (not overclocked).
> > 2 sticks of Micron PC133 (256+128)
> > TNT2M64 AGP :^(, XFree 4.0.3, latest Nvidia binary drivers
> > kernels 2.4.8-26mdk, 2.4.8 (recompiled), 2.4.18 (stock Linus
> > kernel)
>
>     I'd start with reseating cards, ram, cables, etc. Clean out any
> dust.  Leave the case cover off and point a table fan into the box.
> Then boot a memtest86 floppy and test your ram. Often freeze ups are
> caused by poor connections, ram, or running too hot.  If the ram
> passes and the system doesn't freeze with a table fan blowin into it,
> you probly need to improve case coolin.  Heat was the problem.
>
>     If you still have freezes the next thing I'd try is renaming
> XF86Config-4 to somethin like XF86Config-4-nvidia, and enable the
> original XF86Config-4 to use the nv driver.  You don't need to
> uninstall the nvidia GLX and kernel packages.  Just see if the
> freezes stop when you use the open source driver.  If they do, then
> the nvidia binaries are the problem. Are you usin ones that were
> built against the kernel you're usin 'em with?

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