* Steven T. Hatton (hattons@speakeasy.net) [021013 00:35]: ->On Sunday 13 October 2002 03:04 am, Ben Rosenberg wrote: ->> I'd like to post a question all you learned people. ->> ->> Could the issues I'm having be caused by the fact that 8.1 installed the ->> Athlon kernel pkg? I know the Duron is the bastard little brother of the ->> Athlon but could something be causing it to act weird and would I maybe ->> be better off with the k_deflt rpm? ->> ->> Cheers! -> ->Ur, uh, I assume you are talkig about the DRI thing? If so. I am a complete ->intel drone. Intel Mobo, Intel CPU. We both seem to have this problem. Well, I've broken out the 8.0 CD's. Screw this. I like playing UT and having peppy responses from X. This crap is slow and generally unpleasant. With all the lockups and other stuff. This is just the last straw. Oh well. Guess I'll bite again maybe in a few months when more patches are out or wait for 8.2. :( -- Ben Rosenberg ---===---===---===--- mailto:ben@whack.org Tell me what you believe.. I tell you what you should see.

* Steven T. Hatton (hattons@speakeasy.net) [021013 00:54]: ->On Sunday 13 October 2002 03:41 am, Ben Rosenberg wrote: -> ->> Well, I've broken out the 8.0 CD's. Screw this. I like playing UT and ->> having peppy responses from X. This crap is slow and generally ->> unpleasant. With all the lockups and other stuff. This is just the last ->> straw. Oh well. Guess I'll bite again maybe in a few months when more ->> patches are out or wait for 8.2. :( -> ->And of course, you have submitted a bug report to feedback@suse.com. If I knew what was causing the "random" lockups...sure I'd report it. If I could get anyone to believe me that DRI/DRM doesn't work and that sax2 in 8.1 can't even figure out what my monitor is..but in 8.0 it can. I would surely report it. I've told my issues to a few SuSE people I know and I got back " but it works for me"... Tell ya the truth I have no clue what was causing it. Weird messages like "AGP unavailable" isn't much help either. I don't mean to sound cranky. It's just late..I just got 8.0 back on the machine and the apt repository is fried..so I have to wait to update. :( -- Ben Rosenberg ---===---===---===--- mailto:ben@whack.org Tell me what you believe.. I tell you what you should see.

Two days ago I installed the default 2.4.19 kernel on a 8.0 system. This is one of several Athlon sytems I have at home all running 8.0. All have behaved wonderfully when patched. Seti is running on all of them and they are running 24/7. I have had issues with the 2.4.19 8.0 system since the kernel was installed. Several are mentioned in the 8.1 threads. This morning I found the system locked up. On reboot the USB keyboard had to be unplugged and replugged to enter the password. It worked fine until the login screen. I am willing to placed my money on the 2.4.19 kernel being the culprit. Henry On Sunday 13 October 2002 02:41, Ben Rosenberg wrote:

* Steven T. Hatton (hattons@speakeasy.net) [021013 00:35]: ->On Sunday 13 October 2002 03:04 am, Ben Rosenberg wrote: ->> I'd like to post a question all you learned people. ->> ->> Could the issues I'm having be caused by the fact that 8.1 installed the ->> Athlon kernel pkg? I know the Duron is the bastard little brother of the ->> Athlon but could something be causing it to act weird and would I maybe ->> be better off with the k_deflt rpm? ->> ->> Cheers! -> ->Ur, uh, I assume you are talkig about the DRI thing? If so. I am a complete ->intel drone. Intel Mobo, Intel CPU. We both seem to have this problem.

Well, I've broken out the 8.0 CD's. Screw this. I like playing UT and having peppy responses from X. This crap is slow and generally unpleasant. With all the lockups and other stuff. This is just the last straw. Oh well. Guess I'll bite again maybe in a few months when more patches are out or wait for 8.2. :(

On Sunday 13 October 2002 09:02, Graham Murray wrote:

h g writes:

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I have had issues with the 2.4.19 8.0 system since the kernel was installed. Several are mentioned in the 8.1 threads. This morning I found the system locked up. On reboot the USB keyboard had to be unplugged and replugged to enter the password. It worked fine until the login screen.

I am willing to placed my money on the 2.4.19 kernel being the culprit.

My experiences also suggest this. Since upgrading (by a fresh install and restoring /home and data) from 8.0 (with self built kernel) to 8.1 my system locked solid (with the disk light solid on) three times in the first day. I downloaded and installed kernel 2.4.20-pre10 from kernel.org and since then it has worked without a problem. Though it could be something to do with my hardware as I had the same problem with the SuSE supplied kernel when I installed 8.0.

On the lockup my disk light was also on. Thanks for the tip. Henry