On Thursday 08 August 2002 07:46 pm, et scribbled in crayon on a yellow legal pad: > do you have a cd or floppy that came with either the mother > board, or the sound card?
No. Sound card is a SoundBlaster with aCreative CT5880 > can you move the sound card to a different slot on the > motherboard? Yes. Worth a try. Thanks, Hoyt Hoyt- I'd noticed earlier in this thread and in other e-mails as well that stability was something you were sorely lacking in 8.2 X crashes etc etc etc. Well I too suffered from this and never thought about the fact that they could be related because my Hardware is very different from yours. Research into going stable has however yielded two things one a box that rocks. With full capabilities and a KVM that works right again. I had to build a new kernel. Under character devices there is an option to build DRM with old (4.0) drivers (as apposed to the new 4.1 versions) Now my box was completely stable under 8.1 and I found out that in kernel 2.4.10 they started adding the new DRM in about 2.4.14 it became the default. 2.4.8 kernel the stock kernel with Mandrake 8.1 then didn't have the new DRM. So I went and built myself a kernel using the old DRM modules and poooof. I'm rock steady. No feature loss. No hassles. Just a box that when I move the mouse in the morning the screen wakes up, I can ctrl-alt-f1 without killing X etc etc. My point is build a test kernel for your self this way. (Modules too) and try it out. Just make sure you change the EXTRAVERSION line in the Makefile so that the modules become a new directory of their own. Your results may vary but mine have been all good so far. 3 days uptime and rocking! James
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