Guus de Bruijn wrote:
Hi all,
I've been using 9.3 now for a while, but it's unusable, due to random lockups/freezes. The problems started after a clean install of 9.3. The system crashes at completely random times (using KDE as window manager). When the systems freezes, I'm unable to switch to another runlevel, and the music hangs. My Windows XP doesn't show this kind of behaviour, so I think it isn't a problem with hardware. I've installed today Fedora Core 3 with KDE 3.3, but the freezing problem was still there. Is it a problem with the kernel? With KDE? I dunno. I'm now quite desperate, because I absolutely don't now how to tackle this problem!
My specs: AMD Athlon 64 2800+ 1024 MB Ram Sapphire Radeon 9600 Gigabyte K8VT800 Pro Mainbord
Thanks in advance,
Guuzjo
Do you have an AGP video card? The reason I ask is because I have an older AMD and it has had this same problem since I bought it... and there is no resolution to the problem (outside of replacing the AMD with an Intel CPU... but that would necessitate replacing the motherboard too... not worth it). Either way, I'd suggest monitoring memory and swap usage, see if it climbs. hth, ken -- A lot of us are working harder than we want, at things we don't like to do. Why? ...In order to afford the sort of existence we don't care to live. -- Bradford Angier