Re: tracking down a hard crash

2006-05-03 Thread Matt Price
On 5/3/06, Andrew Sackville-West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Wed, May 03, 2006 at 08:22:48AM -0400, Matt Price wrote: > > er, having a little trouble here -- xsensors comes up blank! not sure > if that means I'm missing the requisite kernel drivers. any way to > tell what I need? > You proba

Re: tracking down a hard crash

2006-05-03 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Wed, May 03, 2006 at 08:22:48AM -0400, Matt Price wrote: > > er, having a little trouble here -- xsensors comes up blank! not sure > if that means I'm missing the requisite kernel drivers. any way to > tell what I need? > You probably need to setup your lmsensors. try `sensors-detect` to ge

Re: tracking down a hard crash

2006-05-03 Thread Matt Price
On 5/3/06, Matt Price <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On 5/3/06, Andrew Sackville-West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: thanks andrew. these hardware monitors -- are they things like xseonsors and mbmon? I've just apt-get installed those and will try them out. other suggestions still welcome! er, hav

Re: tracking down a hard crash

2006-05-03 Thread Matt Price
On 5/3/06, Andrew Sackville-West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Tue, May 02, 2006 at 10:49:13PM -0400, Matt Price wrote: > Hi folks, > > I'm having a problem with hard crashes on my box (sid, not quite up to > date). They seem to happen in a variety of circumstances -- the > computer locks hard i

Re: tracking down a hard crash

2006-05-02 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Tue, May 02, 2006 at 10:49:13PM -0400, Matt Price wrote: > Hi folks, > > I'm having a problem with hard crashes on my box (sid, not quite up to > date). They seem to happen in a variety of circumstances -- the > computer locks hard in an X session (running xfce4 usually) and is > inaccessible

tracking down a hard crash

2006-05-02 Thread Matt Price
Hi folks, I'm having a problem with hard crashes on my box (sid, not quite up to date). They seem to happen in a variety of circumstances -- the computer locks hard in an X session (running xfce4 usually) and is inaccessible by ssh or any other. If amarok is running at the time it will sound as