From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <396341CE.71DDB938@relog.ch> Date: Wed, 05 Jul 2000 16:10:22 +0200 From: Michel Dänzer Reply-To: daenzerm@student.ethz.ch MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Gwyn Judd CC: LinuxPPC Developers List Subject: Re: seemingly random lock-up with kernel 2.2.17p7 References: <20000706013650.A2546@thislove.dyndns.org> <20000706020342.B986@thislove.dyndns.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Sender: owner-linuxppc-dev@lists.linuxppc.org List-Id: Gwyn Judd wrote: > > On Wed, Jul 05, 2000 at 08:51:09AM -0500, me@johngrimes.com wrote: > > Gwyn, > > Might be related or might not but I have recently started having > > troubles too with random locks. > > Now I am running 2.2.15 (but this started happening soon after the > > upgrade) > > Now my error is not directly with the kernel though. If I am in > > the console it has never happened but only if I am in X. In fact its X > > that crashes but as no keys work it doesn't matter. Now I always have > > xmms open when I crash but it also might be a screensaver problem as it > > always happens when the screensaver is one (which is the majority of the > > time though). > > Does this sound similar? > > Do you have an ati rage 128gl card by chance? > > John > > This all sounds quite familiar. The lockups have happened with both xmms > and mpg123. I have no idea if it is a full system lock or just X since I > have no remote machine to ping it with, all I am able to do is force > reboot. It happened also with 2.2.15 I think as well as 2.2.16 What versions of X are you using? Someone reported lockups with the 4.0 r128 driver a long time ago and someone else suggested it might be bad interaction between the graphics and sound devices. Just two more of my cents, Michel -- True programmers never die, they just branch to an odd address. ______________________________________________________________________________ Earthling Michel Dänzer (MrCooper) \ CS student and free software enthusiast Debian GNU/Linux (powerpc,i386) user \ member of XFree86, Team *AMIGA*, AUGS ** Sent via the linuxppc-dev mail list. See http://lists.linuxppc.org/