Hello,
I just joined this list.. I was wondering if there is an archive somewhere
so I don't repeat any questions that others had.
> > > So again: is there anyone with a stable (that is: stress tested non
> > > crasheable BP6) on this mailing list? And is there anyone who has an
I had a *rock-solid* BP6 system for 6 months. I ran everything on it, and
never had a single unexplained crash, just the occasional devel kernel
crashes.. which switching kernels fixed.
What changed was that I put in a Matrox G400 Max (AGP) and a SBlive
X-Gamer (PCI). Within a few hours of putting those in, it was crashing
all the time, and has been ever since.
The cards I had before the system started locking up were a Diamond
Stealth Video VRAM, which is a 2D PCI card, and a Pro Audio Spectrum 16,
which is an ISA sound card.
The system is running very cool (30-32C for the CPU's), and I do have
thermal grease on the BX chip, although I haven't yet found a 486 fan
for it yet.
The crashes only happen in X.. I've been playing the OpenGL game "bzflag"
lately. I can play it for several hours, with no problem at all. It is a
full screen game that you play from within X (and has sound). Within a
few minutes to a few hours after I quit the game, my system will lock up.
But as long as I'm in that game, no problemo. So that almost seems to
point more to an X-Server/Window manager issue. I do use XF86_SVGA 3.3.6,
along with Enlightenment 0.16.3. I may try switching to XFree 4.0 soon
just to see what happens. First, I may try to figure out which of the 2
cards is the culprit.
Thanks for listening to me rant! It's good to know I'm not the only one
with this issue =)
-Eric
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