On Thursday 15 January 2004 14:25, BandiPat wrote:
On Wednesday 14 January 2004 06:01 am, plain wrote:
i guess the more windoze-like our linucses become, the more windoze-like they behave! Here is what i consider a pretty good example: First make sure everything is backed up and all apps are closed. Start your realplayer - i use it to hear news from the old country-, hook up to a station or something. then, for a change, forget about work and world, and click up a game of Klondike solitaire. then count the seconds or the minutes until the hard lockup. in my a7s333 - 1gb ram - ati rage pro128 it happens every time. sometimes in 10 seconds, sometimes in 10 minutes. suse 8.2 or 9.0 it reminds me of the old saying : Be careful what you wish, you might get it... it is a silly combination of apps and it is not important to me that this gets fixed, however it is amazing to me that something as simple as klondike can bring down a linux setup with 6-7 months uptime on the first try and then every single time after that... d.
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A couple of things jump out at me on your problems. First of all you have a motherboard with the 333 chipset. Buggy! I'm going to guess
Yes, you are correct, it's an ASUS a7s33. Definitely not the cream of the crop. BUT, it's twin is rock solid in windoze xp in the same house, same network, same cable modem. we even changed mobo's and components between the two computers, all the way up to full exchange of os's. the board seems to be buggy for linucs but not for mister bill.
this is an ASUS? Second thing, 1 gb of ram and a big area for a small defect. Have you tested?
memtest has been run a number of times, for many iterations. Last thing, is Realplayer and are you
listening to streaming radio? have not played a lot with linucs mm programs. can xmms support .ra /.ram streaming audio & video? i guess i will just have to test that!
Use xmms and see if you still have the
same problem.
Just a few thoughts, good luck.
Thanks for the suggestions. Again, please note that the comments were more general than the specific issues. I could not care less if i can't play klondike (But i do like the streaming audio). But it seems that the general Linux development focus has shifted to version-mania and marketeering instead of substance and stability. If that impression is correct, it is not good for linux. Dimitris
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