The problem with the system crashing is solved, and all is now well in the Kendall household. :-)
As Jan suggested, a good thing to try was dropping the resolution of the X session down from 1600x1200. That seemed to stop the crashes. I also downloaded the updated XFree86 packages, since: > Red Hat Network has determined that the following advisory is applicable to > one or more of the systems you have registered: > > Bug Fix Advisory - RHBA-2002:068-06 > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Summary: > Updated XFree86 packages are available [...] > - A hardware issue has been fixed with ATI Rage XL chipsets being used in > high resolution modes on some Dell and IBM servers which could result > in a hard lockup So I'm back now in 1600x1200, and have been all weekend, and driven the system pretty hard - 2+ simultaneous X sessions; opening some big mailboxes (10s of MBs); a full level 0 backup of the system to CDRWs; download and install of OpenOffice 1.0 (works really well, BTW); got FSViewer - http://www.bayernline.de/~gscholz/linux/fsviewer/ - the excellent Nextstep-like file manager, running properly (I just had to delete an earlier version of its config file); and some other little things. luke -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
