My fathers machine does have a SB Live!. Is another common denominator finally emerging for these freezes?
On Thu, 2001-12-20 at 15:50, Christian Rose wrote: > tor 2001-12-20 klockan 20.00 skrev Victor Putz: > > Quite regularly, when browsing with Galeon, my system will simply freeze > > and become completely unresponsive; no mouse movement, no keyboard motion. > > It will ignore attempts to switch to different TTY console windows, will > > shrug aside control-alt-delete, and even disregards attempts to telnet > > from my wife's computer in the next room (even with X and the console > > completely frozen, I've almost always been able to telnet in from next > > door and shut down properly). > > > > The only thing which recovers the system is the hardware reset button or a > > power-down. Luckily I'm running RH7.2 with ext3fs, so a reboot isn't very > > traumatic, but it disturbs me quite a bit. > > > > Any ideas on what the problem could be? I'm using the Galeon 1.0.1 rpm > > for RHL, the mozilla 0.9.6 packages, and the prebuilt 2.4.9-13 kernel rpm. > > The system is quite solid otherwise and I can leave it running for days > > until I surf the web. Galeon options have Java/Flash off, Javascript > > disabled, popups off. > > Do you have a SoundBlaster Live! card in your system? Try removing it > and replace it with another sound card. That solved my problems; before > the machine froze completely at least once a day, now I haven't had a > single problem since, and more than 31 days of uptime. > > Also, you could try unsetting "Gnome sound events" in the control center > to see if it helps. > > > Christian > > > > _______________________________________________ > Galeon-user mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/galeon-user -- Richard Ziegler Release Engineer / ClearCase Administrator (617) 503-0442 CertCo, Inc. _______________________________________________ evolution maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/evolution
