Sorry if this was covered in an earlier post but 2 questions reguarding your sustem.
How was your Matrox card set-up during installation, what driver and which version of
X?
Does your MOBO have onboard vid. and is it jumppered to disabled?
The symptons/lockup you describe indicate a problem in the X system.
Just as a test try running your system at 600x800 60mhz and 16bit color to see if you
still encounter the same system abnomalities.
Charles (-:
Forever never goes beyond tomorrow.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Vic
> Sent: Wednesday, January 31, 2001 11:44 AM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: [newbie] Mandrake 7.2 crashes
>
>
> I am not sure but I *think* it has to do with the
> chipset on the SOYO SY-5EH5 motherboard,
> I have heard that those sony motherboards are weird,
> so it might be that something in the chipset is not
> allowing Linux to grab onto the hardware,
> I guess like the other guy said you could test out
> the thing running in runlevel 3 uhh, I can't remember
> what he said for grub but in lilo boot type linux 3
> and it should get you into runlevel 3 which is text only.
>
> I hope this has helped some.
>
> On Tuesday 30 January 2001 08:57 pm, so spoke Jim Dawson:
> > I have installed Mandrake 7.2 on my second PC several times
> > over the past few weeks using various configurations and it
> > always crashes hard within a few minutes of use. After a
> > few minutes the vertical edges of windows become distorted
> > (slightly 'wavy') shortly after that the whole machine
> > hangs, requiring a hard reset. (No programs respond, CTRL-
> > ALT-BACKSPACE doesn't kill X, Oddly I *can* move the mouse
> > pointer but it doesn't do anything...) It makes *Windows*
> > look like a paragon of stability!
> >
> > I have installed Mandrake 7.2 using the same CDs on another
> > computer with similar hardware. It runs great on the other
> > computer.
> >
> > Does anyone have any suggestions as to what I might try to
> > get this working?
> >
> > Thanks in advance.
> >
> > Here's a quick rundown of the hardware:
> > * SOYO SY-5EH5 motherboard
> > * AMD K6/2 350MHz processor
> > * 1x128MB 100ns SDRAM DIMM
> > * EIDE CD-ROM (Secondary Master)
> > * Sony CD-R (Secondary Slave)
> > * Maxtor 15GB EIDE (Primary Master)
> > * Matrox Mystique PCI 4MB video
> > * Sony 200sx monitor
> > * Kingston (DEC 21041 based) 10Mbps Ethernet card
> > * Creative Labs Sound Blaster 16 Plug & Play
> > * Seagate/Connor QIC-3020 TR3 floppy-based tape drive
> > * Connor 2MB tape drive controller (floppy-based)
> > * 2x USB ports (VIA chipset, on motherboard)
> > * Epson Color Stylus 860 printer (hooked up via USB)
> > * Standard Serial/Parallel ports.
> > * Supra 33.6 external modem (COM1)
> > * 1.44MB floppy
> > * generic 104 key Keyboard
> > * MS Intelimouse (wheel) ps/2 bus
>
>
