On Mon, Apr 15, 2002 at 10:58:24PM -0700, Gordon Messmer wrote:
> 
> On Mon, 2002-04-15 at 13:10, Fred Dech wrote:
> > > Other possibilities:  the site uses Macromedia Flash, rather than Java. 
> > > Fairly stable, but maybe your X server isn't?  What video card and sound
> > > card do you use?
> > >
> > sound card?  good question.  i never did plug speaker into that sucker, come
> > to think of it.  it looks like an integrated Sound Blaster type X?
> 
> Maybe look at the output of '/sbin/lsmod', or '/sbin/lspci'.  The Sound
> Blaster Live! drivers are very unstable by reputation.  I had a Live!
> card for a while, and the PC it was in hung constantly.  After replacing
> that card, the system runs fine.
>
huh.  i'll have to check the PO.  pretty sure it is an SB.
00:1f.5 Multimedia audio controller: Intel Corporation: Unknown device 2445 (rev 04)
i don't even use the damn thing.  got my 1 set of speakers hooked up to the Win
box.  i'll sort this out.

> > on my Win machine that doesn't crash with a newer version of netscape.
> > my video card has been relatively happy.  NVidia Quadra2.  i have to rebuild
> > the drivers by hand, since the don't have a RedHat 7.1, kernel-2.4.9-* rpm
> > for it.  but it handles most things i throw at it pretty well.
> 
> NVidia's driver, or the XFree86 driver?  It sounds like you're using
> NVidia's.  If that's the case, GET the proper kernel-source-2.x.x
> package.  Don't expect drivers built against the wrong kernel source to
> work.
> 
right.  i built the drivers against the current kernel source.  so that's fine,
as far as that goes.  first time i upgraded the kernel after starting with
Linux, i had a hell of a time figuring out why my graphics broke :-O.  it's
become routine.  i've found NVidia to be very responsive and helpful with
customer support questions.

thanks.

--fred



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