Charles Plessy wrote: > Le Fri, Jun 20, 2008 at 07:02:16AM +0200, Brice Goglin a écrit : > >> Charles Plessy wrote: >> >>> I hope that the upgrade will fix the problem, it just seems too >>> complicated to handle. >>> >>> >> Did you have a chance to upgrade? >> > > Yes, I now have X 1:7.3+10 and the ATI driver 1:6.8.0-1. I still > experience some unpredicatble crashes. A few times it happened when I > ran a program that tried to use more memory than the available RAM. So > maybe despite the fact that I do not encounter crashes with OSX, it may > be a hardware problem after all. I ran the memtester program, and it > never stopped (It sometimes paused, however). > > Sometimes I have many crashes a day, sometimes not. Importantly, I never > switch the computer off in week days. Maybe it crashes until some kind > of bad ram gets in an area that for whatever reason is not allocated > until the next reboot; that could explain why sometimes I have no > problem for more than a week? > > Shall I try Sid's packages ? >
The ati driver in sid is probably better than the one in testing, the server update is about security. Brice -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]