[newbie] XFree86 freezes

2002-06-02 Thread Andrew Berry
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,

Re: [newbie] XFree86 freezes

2002-06-02 Thread Bill Davidson
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

Re: [newbie] XFree86 freezes

2002-06-02 Thread RichardA
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:

Re: Re: [newbie] XFree86 freezes

2002-06-02 Thread Andrew Berry
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