On Tue, June 21, 2005 2:40, Thomas Steffen said: > > It might just be the X server going crazy. Since it runs as root, it > can take the whole system down if it crashes. You may try to compile > "Magic keys" into the kernel, so that you can kill the server using > the keyboard.
That's good advice. Although with only one exception I have been able to ssh in and restart X or reboot the machine. > But what I would really recommend is to try X.org 6.8 from ubuntu. It > has solved many many problems for me (ATI card), and my machine rans > fine now. I'd like to try x.org, but I think I'll wait until it's in sid. > Hm... I had some issues with my SATA drive. The connection was not > reliable, so that it would "unplugg" itself. A new cable fixed that. > Is /var/log/messages on the SATA drive? This is possible but I have done a LOT of heavy I/O to/from the disk without even a hickup. I even (recently) copied 200GB from an ATA/100 drive to a SATA drive without issue. Based on some off-list discussion I decided to try recompiling the nvidia kernel driver with gcc 3.4.4 (instead of 3.3.6) and give a kernel boot option of "acpi=off". The results so far show much better stability in X and the kernel no longer complains about loosing ticks. I'll keep an eye on it but ut2004 (amd64 binary) no longer randomly crashes - something I did not notice before because I didn't play the game long enough on this machine (hence why I stated it was fine in a previous post). However, it hasn't been that long (day and a half) and only time will tell if either change fixed anything... Ron -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]