[newbie] XFree86 freezes
I am running: Mandrake 8.2, KDE3, IceWM, XFree86 4.2.0. Hardware: P166 MMX 64 Mb Ram 120 Mb Swap S3 Virge 2D card Monster3D Voodoo1 3D card Dual boot with Windows 98se using graphical LILO. My computer seems to randomly freeze up. It stops responding to everything (mouse, keyboard, CTRL+ALT+BKSPC). This only happens when I am running X11. I haven't found a pattern that shows a specific app causing the freeze. I have had combinations of IceWM, KDE2.2 and 3, running combinations StarOffice5.2, Konquoror, FreeAmp, and Ogg123, open when a crash occurs. I don't think that its a hardware issue, as this never happens under Win98SE, and HardDrake properly detected all my hardware. I have tried looking in some log files in /var/log to find a pattern. No luck. My questions: 1. Is there a systematic way to detemine what is causing the crashes? 2. What specific log files should I look at? 3. Anyone else had this problem? Fixes? Thanks, Andrew Get your own 800 number Voicemail, fax, email, and a lot more http://www.ureach.com/reg/tag Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] XFree86 freezes
On Sun, 2 Jun 2002 16:06:57 -0400 Andrew Berry [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am running: Mandrake 8.2, KDE3, IceWM, XFree86 4.2.0. Hardware: P166 MMX 64 Mb Ram 120 Mb Swap S3 Virge 2D card Monster3D Voodoo1 3D card Dual boot with Windows 98se using graphical LILO. My computer seems to randomly freeze up. It stops responding to everything (mouse, keyboard, CTRL+ALT+BKSPC). This only happens when I am running X11. I haven't found a pattern that shows a specific app causing the freeze. I have had combinations of IceWM, KDE2.2 and 3, running combinations StarOffice5.2, Konquoror, FreeAmp, and Ogg123, open when a crash occurs. I don't think that its a hardware issue, as this never happens under Win98SE, and HardDrake properly detected all my hardware. I have tried looking in some log files in /var/log to find a pattern. No luck. My questions: 1. Is there a systematic way to detemine what is causing the crashes? 2. What specific log files should I look at? 3. Anyone else had this problem? Fixes? Thanks, Andrew Could it be a memory problem, as in running out. 64MB doesn't seem like enough to run kde by itself, nevermind run applications on top of it. Of course that's pure speculation on my part. I have a 300MHz PII with 160MB of and I find kde painfully slow. That's why I tried xfce. Anyway, you prolly wanna look in /var/log/messages. If there are any clues, they're prolly in there. You might also wanna run free and/or top periodically to check your memory usage. HTH. Bill Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] XFree86 freezes
If this always happens under Linux (not X11) and never Windows, are you using memory chips with different timings? Windows is much more tolerant of this than Linux. And if the kernel crashes, there's no-one around to write error messages... RichardA Andrew Berry, Sunday 02 June 2002 21:06: I am running: Mandrake 8.2, KDE3, IceWM, XFree86 4.2.0. Hardware: P166 MMX 64 Mb Ram 120 Mb Swap S3 Virge 2D card Monster3D Voodoo1 3D card Dual boot with Windows 98se using graphical LILO. My computer seems to randomly freeze up. It stops responding to everything (mouse, keyboard, CTRL+ALT+BKSPC). This only happens when I am running X11. I haven't found a pattern that shows a specific app causing the freeze. I have had combinations of IceWM, KDE2.2 and 3, running combinations StarOffice5.2, Konquoror, FreeAmp, and Ogg123, open when a crash occurs. I don't think that its a hardware issue, as this never happens under Win98SE, and HardDrake properly detected all my hardware. I have tried looking in some log files in /var/log to find a pattern. No luck. My questions: 1. Is there a systematic way to detemine what is causing the crashes? 2. What specific log files should I look at? 3. Anyone else had this problem? Fixes? Thanks, Andrew Get your own 800 number Voicemail, fax, email, and a lot more http://www.ureach.com/reg/tag Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: Re: [newbie] XFree86 freezes
I run in the Kicker ksysguard and system monitor to see cpu usage, memory usage, and hard disk accesses. This morning I had a crash, and the frozen image on the kicker showed about 25% cpu usage, 50% free RAM, and 60% free swap. I've also had it crash while using IceWM. Andrew Get your own 800 number Voicemail, fax, email, and a lot more http://www.ureach.com/reg/tag On Sun, 2 Jun 2002, Bill Davidson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: On Sun, 2 Jun 2002 16:06:57 -0400 Andrew Berry [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am running: Mandrake 8.2, KDE3, IceWM, XFree86 4.2.0. Hardware: P166 MMX 64 Mb Ram 120 Mb Swap S3 Virge 2D card Monster3D Voodoo1 3D card Dual boot with Windows 98se using graphical LILO. My computer seems to randomly freeze up. It stops responding to everything (mouse, keyboard, CTRL+ALT+BKSPC). This only happens when I am running X11. I haven't found a pattern that shows a specific app causing the freeze. I have had combinations of IceWM, KDE2.2 and 3, running combinations StarOffice5.2, Konquoror, FreeAmp, and Ogg123, open when a crash occurs. I don't think that its a hardware issue, as this never happens under Win98SE, and HardDrake properly detected all my hardware. I have tried looking in some log files in /var/log to find a pattern. No luck. My questions: 1. Is there a systematic way to detemine what is causing the crashes? 2. What specific log files should I look at? 3. Anyone else had this problem? Fixes? Thanks, Andrew Could it be a memory problem, as in running out. 64MB doesn't seem like enough to run kde by itself, nevermind run applications on top of it. Of course that's pure speculation on my part. I have a 300MHz PII with 160MB of and I find kde painfully slow. That's why I tried xfce. Anyway, you prolly wanna look in /var/log/messages. If there are any clues, they're prolly in there. You might also wanna run free and/or top periodically to check your memory usage. HTH. Bill Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
