On Saturday 29 November 2003 09:02 pm, Peter Ruskin wrote: > On Sunday 30 Nov 2003 01:12, Mark Knecht wrote: > > Starting 3-4 weeks ago the machine has been crashing a lot. It's > > hung with no keyboard or mouse. I cannot ssh into it. Only a > > reset gets it going again. memtest86 runs for a day with no > > errors found. > > Hmmm, I have a machine like that, hanging with mouse and keyboard > (both PS/2) dead. Because it was steadily getting worse and I > could no longer get Windows to set up my grahics card, I replaced > the graphics card and main board. > > Mouse and keyboard still hang running Gentoo, but OK running > Mandrake and Windows. Now this happens when I play a Windows game > with wine. Mandrake's OK because there I use winex. I removed > winex from my gentoo boxes after the problems with transgaming led > to its withdrawal from portage. I'm sure that my problem must have > started then. It also afflicted my other gentoo box, less > severely, when playing that game with wine. > > So yesterday I downloaded winex-cvs from transgaming and built it > (with help from the patch and support files still in my portage > overlay) and so far the problem has disappeared. > > Peter
Good luck Peter I hope the box stays up. I have wine on the box but almost never run it, certainly not in a couple of weeks. -- Regards, Ernie 100% Microsoft and Intel free -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
