On Fri, 2004-04-02 at 05:40, Thomas Fortner wrote: > Hi, I'm new here. I just installed Redhat Linux 9 on my workstation, > with all the packages installed. The computer is running dual AMD MP > 2800s, with 512 MB of RAM. I installed it fine, but when I started > using it more, I noticed that the X server would freeze, and I > wouldn't > be able to move the mouse, or use the keyboard; I just had to shut off > the power. I ran the update manager, and it installed the 2.4.30-9smp > kernel, which helped at first, but still doesn't make much of a > difference. Now it seems like every other time I boot up the comp > freezes upon starting Mozilla, Ximian, or just playing some songs with > XMMS. Is this just an issue with the X server version (4.3.0)? > Sometimes just Mozilla crashes, and I can simply kill the process. > But > often I have to reboot. > > Thanks for any insight. > > Ben > > Hi Ben, > > I suspect that you will find you have a bad system board. I've seen > this kind of problem before and that has always been what was causing > the problem. > > I've built dual processor systems and run Red Hat on them before, > although I haven't used AMD, and they ran well. One thing to watch, > though, is that the kernel doesn't handle multiple SCSI adapters with > hard drives well. If you have hard drives on more than one SCSI card, > try removing the second adapter and see if the problem goes away. > > Tom Hi Tom, thanks for the response. Ijust started booting to an earlier version of the kernel (2.4.20-8smp; I had the problems with 2.4.30-8smp), and I've only had X freeze once. This happened while running XMMS, a terminal window, and Mozilla at the same time. But other than that there's been no problems. Ben -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
