On Fri, 26 Nov 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> Anyone else suffering lockups on 6.1?
>
> When I say dead, I mean dead. X is still displayed on the screen, no IO
> at all, not even from the network. Mouse freezes, keyboard freezes, ping
> from another system and it's dead. No "Alt-Ctrl <BACKSPACE> - nothing.
> NO keyboard.
[snip]
>
> The one thing that is consistent is that I seem to be using (moving) the
> (serial) mouse every time it fails. May be a coincidence, but I can leave
> it running all night and it's fine in the morning. Start working, and It
> can freeze.
>
> Could there be a problem in the serial driver? Mouse is a M$ serial.
> Serial port is "/dev/mouse" linked to /dev/ttyS1. Couldn't be more
> standard. The serial driver is compiled into the kernel.
>
> Kernel 2.2.12-20
> XFree86-Mach64-3.3.5-3
>
> The box doubles (drive switch) as a combat flight simulator running Win98,
> definitely using the Mach64 Graphics adapter, and it doesn't fail -
> other than the typical Win98 bit-rot/memory leak problems. But no
> freezes. So I doubt it's the graphics adapter hardware.
>
I have a box that behaves in the same manner, except it does not
typically freeze when I am actually using the box, most often it dies
overnight. What other hardware do you have in the machine?
Mine is:
ATI Mach63 GT (Rage II)
TYAN motherboard
2940UW
3com 3c509
Here's the fun part (for me): I have an IDENTICAL machine, other than revs
of the motherboard and cards maybe, that does NOT suffer from this
problem. I moved my Redhat install from one machine to the other (swapped
drives) and problem stayed with the hardware (it is now running Mandrake
and dieing once a day or so).
I would suggest that the problem is hardware-related, exactly where is a
good question.
Something I have been trying on my bad box: if I run a flood ping, the box
will die within minutes, so I'm beginning to suspect the 3com is the
problem. Do you happen to run a 3com NIC?
Bill Carlson
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