The most common causes for random crashes in my experience:
1) You are using freetype and it choked on a font or generated
a bad glyph that the X server choked on. Remedy: replace Load
"freetype" with Load "xtt" in the XF86Config to use the other
TrueType font renderer.
2) Graphics bugs. Particularly with the OpenGL screensavers. If you find
your machine has crashed during the night, it was probably one of
the OpenGL screen savers.
3) In vendor-provided binary drivers (because those seem to be the
only ones using DMA for 2D), AGP instability on the system due
to the GART drivers not knowing the proper workarounds for
undocumented bugs in various AGP chipsets. This is usually
limited to ALi and older VIA chipsets.
Mark.
On Sat, 18 Oct 2003, Berny Stapleton wrote:
> Can anyone give me some hints as to why my XFree86 server dies
> occasionally?
>
> Normally it crashes when I am not around, so it doesn't bother me as I
> have all my work saved when I walk away from the machine. The other
> night it crashed on me when I was using it.
>
> Any help much appreciated,
>
> Berny
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