Steven J. Oswald writes: > I am running RedHat Linux 7.2 (XFree86 4.1) on my Thinkpad 600X (Model > 2645-4EU - 500Mhz, 128MB RAM) , and experience frequent system hangs > using KMail. I have updated it to the latest BIOS available from IBM > (POST/BIOS version 1.18 / Video version 2.0). The machine is hung > completely and I am even unable to kill/restart the X server, and I have > not found any key sequence/combo that will get a response. It also > hangs on occasion when I am navigating my file directories under > Konqueror and it appears to normally occur during screen repaint. > > I had the same problems under RedHat 7.0 and 7.1. I run Linux on many > platforms, and this laptop is the only place I experience this problem. > 22Are there any special setting I need in this configuration? >
The TP600x are well known for this problem. Cause: gettimeofday() is not monotonic (probably because of the SpeedStep power saving feature of the CPU). Fix: Get the 4.2 release candidate of XFree86. Egbert. _______________________________________________ Neomagic mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/neomagic
