The system has/had shown no signs of instability prior. I occasionally run a distributed computing program that is very sensitive to cpu/memory instability (folding@home) and have not seen any instability. Just to verify as you suggested, multiple kernel compile yields no problems. I have also tried using the "ati" driver in my x config but this yeilds no differences as does the vesa driver as I previously stated. The bad ethernel cable was due to the fact that I replaced a hub on the network and ended up changing cables to this particular computer, so its not as if this was a sudden failure that may hint at hardware problems. The cable was used on a second computer and verified not to work. ---- Original message ---- >Date: Wed, 31 Mar 2004 09:35:08 -0500 >From: Michael Taylor <michael.taylor@xxxxxxxx> >Subject: Re: X Locks computer >To: xfree86@xxxxxxxxxxx > >dswiston@xxxxxxxx wrote: >> Hi all. I'm having a bit of a problem with my x installation. >> It seems to have come from no where. Prior to today, >> everything was working fine, I had not experienced any >> problems. I rebooted my machine because of a problem I was >> having that turned out to be an bad ethernet cable. Anyhow, >> after the reboot I invoke "startx" from bash. A black screen >> pops up and the system is locked up. Everything is locked. I > >> XFree86 4.3.0.1 >> 2.6.4 kernel >> gnome 2.4 as window manager >> Using ATI dri drivers (fglrx) for a radeon 9600mobile >> A slackware 9.1 install & using dropline > >Is this computer system stable, and hardware error-free after replacing your bad >ethernet cable? Run CPU and disk intensive tasks, like compiling a large project >e.g. XFree86, linux kernel > >Try replacing the ATI binary driver (fglrx) with the XFree86 open-source 'ati' >driver. > >_______________________________________________ >XFree86 mailing list >XFree86@xxxxxxxxxxx >http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xfree86 _______________________________________________ XFree86 mailing list XFree86@xxxxxxxxxxx http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xfree86
