070306 Mick wrote:
> On Tuesday 06 March 2007 21:22, Philip Webb wrote:
>> During the past few months, I've been bit by sudden total freezes
>> while using Epiphany & Konqueror to browse Internet sites.
>> The only way out is to hit the reset button: eg Ctl-Alt-F2 doesn't work.
> The only time I had suffered similar symptoms (but different applications)
> was when I had a bad memory problem. Memtest86 did not show anything
> and it was only through trial and error that I found the faulty module.
I emerged Memtest86 & ran it -- it takes 1 hr for my 1 GB memory -- ,
but I can't find anything to explain the output. It found 2 errors :
... 0000c6e37c0 198.1MB ...
... 0000d6e37a0 214.1MB ...
I realise that these lines refer to hex locations, but I don't understand
the reference to 'MB' (perhaps they're the same info in a different form).
I have a note that :
To tell kernel not to use bad patch of memory, append via Lilo :
'badram=<m>,<n>', where m n are obtained via 'memtest'.
However, the above lines don't give pairs of addresses, only 1 each.
Yes, I did look at the official site & the installed README.
Does anyone have further advice ?
Meanwhile, I plan to compile Kernel 2.6.20-gentoo ,
following the other piece of advice received.
I still suspect an obscure bug in Xorg-x11 .
Thanks for both suggestions.
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