[SuSE Linux] Hard lockups
I'm using SuSE Linux 6.1 on a Pentium 90 with 32 MB EDO Ram, 2MB S3 Trio 64 V2 (no-name brand), 3Com 3c509B TPO NIC, SB Vibra16 PnP (mostly not used, but have the OSS drivers which I only run on- demand), primary master IDE is a 3.1 GB WD Caviar with Linux, primary slave is a 24X CD-Rom, secondary master is a 2 GB Fujitsu with FreeBSD (dormant and unmounted for the time I'm becoming comfortable with Linux). Kernel is 2.2.5 I think (standard SuSE 6.1 kernel). My problem: when running X (and only when running X apparently) the computer just hard-locks completely. Can't even ping to it. At first I thought it was just X locking up and trapping all signals from the mouse and keyboard, but since I can't ping to it, it means the whole OS is locked up. I'm running KDE 1.1 which is also standard with SuSE 6.1, and the X server is the S3-specific server. Haven't tried using the SVGA server to see if there's a difference though. If anyone has seen (and hopefully solved) this or similar problems, or if you know how I can track down what's happening, I'd greatly appreciate it. The above info was just to be thourough (maybe a little too much? :) Thanks in advance, Emmanuel -- To get out of this list, please send email to majordomo@suse.com with this text in its body: unsubscribe suse-linux-e Check out the SuSE-FAQ at <A HREF="http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/"><A HREF="http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/</A">http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/ and the archive at <A HREF="http://www.suse.com/Mailinglists/suse-linux-e/index.html"><A HREF="http://www.suse.com/Mailinglists/suse-linux-e/index.html</A">http://www.suse.com/Mailinglists/suse-linux-e/index.html
Emmanuel Gravel wrote:
I'm using SuSE Linux 6.1 on a Pentium 90 with 32 MB EDO Ram, 2MB S3 Trio 64 V2 (no-name brand), 3Com 3c509B TPO NIC, SB Vibra16 PnP (mostly not used, but have the OSS drivers which I only run on- demand), primary master IDE is a 3.1 GB WD Caviar with Linux, primary slave is a 24X CD-Rom, secondary master is a 2 GB Fujitsu with FreeBSD (dormant and unmounted for the time I'm becoming comfortable with Linux). Kernel is 2.2.5 I think (standard SuSE 6.1 kernel).
My problem: when running X (and only when running X apparently) the computer just hard-locks completely. Can't even ping to it. At first I thought it was just X locking up and trapping all signals from the mouse and keyboard, but since I can't ping to it, it means the whole OS is locked up. I'm running KDE 1.1 which is also standard with SuSE 6.1, and the X server is the S3-specific server. Haven't tried using the SVGA server to see if there's a difference though.
If anyone has seen (and hopefully solved) this or similar problems, or if you know how I can track down what's happening, I'd greatly appreciate it. The above info was just to be thourough (maybe a little too much? :)
Thanks in advance,
Emmanuel --
Your problem may be related to using sound with KDE. On some machines having the sound enabled when KDE is fired may cause it to lock up. That is why sound is turned off in the /opt/kde/bin/startde program. Put '#' in front of the lines that reference the sound: kwmaudiosever and kwmsound, if I remember correctly. -- JLK Linux, because it's STABLE, the source code is included, the price is right. -- To get out of this list, please send email to majordomo@suse.com with this text in its body: unsubscribe suse-linux-e Check out the SuSE-FAQ at <A HREF="http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/"><A HREF="http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/</A">http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/ and the archive at <A HREF="http://www.suse.com/Mailinglists/suse-linux-e/index.html"><A HREF="http://www.suse.com/Mailinglists/suse-linux-e/index.html</A">http://www.suse.com/Mailinglists/suse-linux-e/index.html
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