Just a thought, but you said it was a compaq laptop. I have a compaq laptop of a similar vintage, and it uses the ATI IGP Radeon chipset. I haven't updated it for a while, but I got a lot of random system freezes caused by the IGP south/north (can't remember which one is which, i'm not that techie) not being supported by the kernel. It does it's best, but fails occasionally and apparently at random (random crashes never are random, they just appear that way). That is on 2.4.X series kernels. There may be support for it now though.
> -----Original Message----- > From: Chris I [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: 29 September 2003 02:16 > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] System crash > > > On 2003.09.28 18:42, Norbert Kamenicky wrote: > > SMS WebMaster wrote: > > > >> BTW: can the problem become from my video card (ATI Radeon 7500) > >> (Driver: radeon) ? > > > > For sure it's not driver problem ... > > I use Radeon 7500 (chip RV200 QW) 64MB DDRAM > > in DRI mode on more Linux PC's without any problem > > I'll second. Radeon 7500 (mobility, even) running with dri, > and not a > single problem (unless you count framerates :). > > -- > > Chris I > > You are not a fool just because you have done something foolish -- > only if the folly of it escapes you. > ________________________________________________________________________ This e-mail has been scanned for viruses by MessageLabs. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
