| Mental on Sun, 13 Apr 2003 18:04:40 -0400 |
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On Sun, Apr 13, 2003 at 05:13:46PM -0400, eric@lucii.org wrote: > Occasionally in the past three months, my primary Linux workstation > (sol), will, for no apparent reason, stop functioning. > > It would stop responding to commands, not start new logins, xterms, or > shells and eventually I would have to press the reset button or power > off. It might do this once every two weeks or so (quite infrequently). > I see you have a VIA chip-set & you're using the nvidia drivers. There was at one point (still is?) a problem with certain cards/motherboards. Does your lilo.conf have an append="mem=nopentium" line? The problem I'm thinking of had to do with page size/memory addressing. You'd have to google for the details on that one. Off hand its the first suspect as its symptoms describe your situation. I'm using a geforce3 ti 500 w/an asus a7v8x (kt400). No issues on my end, but I have had lockups previously that went away with the addition of that kernel parameter. There's a bit of controversy about this workaround, I only know that for me it resolved a number of weird stability issues with no perceptible performance degradation. YMMV Of course, it could be something completely unrelated..... :) -- Mental (Mental@NeverLight.com) "Shouting at people who, for one reason or another, cannot hear you is mentally-ill behavior -- or evidence of idiots in command." --George Smith, a virus researcher and columnist for SecurityFocus. CARPE NOCTEM, QUAM MINIMUM CREDULA POSTERO. GPG public key: http://www.neverlight.com/pas/Mental.asc Attachment:
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