On Sunday 22 August 2004 02:42, Jim McCloskey wrote: > One of the machines I use regularly has a nasty habit of suddenly > locking completely (it happens maybe a couple of times a month). It's > always when X is running, and, I am nearly sure, always when a browser > is being used. This is a Debian testing system, running kernel 2.4.23. > Mozilla-Firefox is the browser that is mostly used. > > It's not just that X freezes; the whole system becomes autistic. In > this state, it can't be reached from the network (no ssh, no ping, no > nothing). The only way out, as far as I know, is with the > power-button. Ctl-Alt-Del produces no response. Nor does Alt-SysRq, > which means, I suppose, that the kernel is dead. > > These events leave no trace whatever in the logs and so it's > frustratingly hard to do any useful trouble-shooting. I thought that > they might be caused by a corrupt memory-module, and so I ran memtest > for the best part of a day. However it found no errors. > > I know that this much doesn't provide a lot of information to go on, > and I apologize for that. But does anyone know of ways to work on a > problem such as this? > > I'd be really grateful for any tips or pointers. > > Jim
I had a similar problem before. If I wasn't running X, the computer had no problem. If I did run X, it would freeze completely after a random amount of time. It would even freeze running Knoppix. I eventually discovered that the video card didn't properly support the resolution I was using, even though it would display properly. Have you tried using the vesa driver? Justin Guerin -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]