1253 is just fine for me, stability-wise, as were all its predecessors. However, I use none of the applications you mentioned. The ones I use do not seem to produce any kind of oddities like you describe. As for 1258 and 1261, the instability that I observe does not seem to be related to any software, since the random reboots/freeze really seem to be *ahum*, random, i.e. not related to anything noticeable. Le Lundi 25 Avril 2005 14:41, Ken Nordquist a �it�: > Every kernel after 1240 gives me the udev error mentioned in other posts > (at boot). I have noticed other differences in the post-1240 kernel > (for x86_64). First, Yahoo! chat rooms are set up to have 50 people in > there. After starting Gaim and going into my favorite geek room, I > noticed that the number kept rising... so that while there were about > 35 actually in the room (I asked one of the other people in the room), > the number on Gaim was showing 60+. I rolled the kernel back to 1240 > last night, put myself in a chat room and went to bed, now that I am up, > the correct number is still showing on Gaim. > > Also, the higher the kernel number, the higher the odds that Firefox > will hog CPU time and eventually freeze my computer. The higher the > kernel number, the less stable Jedit becomes (java-based IDE) - it will > not even start with kernel 1261(segmentation faults... even when > starting the program as root). Also, with the last kernel, Thunderbird > does not recognize any settings... while it does send and retrieve > mail, I cannot make any changes to my accounts, etc... > > Is anyone else using x86_64 experiencing problems like this? > > Regards, > > Ken Nordquist > > Sylvain Rouillard wrote: > >I started a similar discussion under > >Re: missing dependency "libgnutls.so.11(GNUTLS_REL_1_0_9)" > > > >We can surely continue it here as this surely deserves its own thread. > > > >For the record, that is four 64b processor users hit by the problem so > > far. > > > >Sylvain