>> What made you suspect the video card?
>> The 2.6.28 kernel that you are running is vanilla or from unstable?
Ooops that was my fat fingers messing up. I meant the 2.6._18_ kernel from
etch.
All packages I've tried are from stable. This box is very basic. Nothing it it
but
the video card
I think I've discovered what's causing the hang, but haven't had time to
dig into it. It seems that the video card (huh?!) is the problem.
lspci -v shows this with the 2.6.28 kernel booted up
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation NV4 [RIVA TNT]
(rev 04) (
Subsystem
> Could you try running memtest86+ on it and see if its a memory issue.
I fired up memtest before leaving last night. It ran 10 hours, 12 passes
with no errors. Only thing I can think of now is to grab some source and
and roll my own where I can cherry-pick and make some SWAG's (Silly Wild A$$e
> Just to add, you could install one of the linux-image-686 or
> linux-image-2.6-686 meta packages.
> The first one depends on the most recent linux kernel, the second one
> depends on the most recent 2.6 kernel.
I tried linux-image-2.6-686 and linux-image-686 (for PentiumX machines).
Both beha
I just upgraded an older machine, PII 400mhz, 256mb RAM, from Etch to Lenny.
The upgrade went smoothly, but the new Lenny kernel hangs upon booting. The
old Etch kernel (2.6.18) is still present and boots up fine into the Lenny
upgrade. When booting from the 2.6.26 kernel, it never makes it t
A question regarding the /etc/mailcap file. The problem involves an app
written with the wxWidgets libraries, that uses the mailcap file as a means
of launching a web browser. In this case, the app does nothing when the
'launch a browser' button is clicked. The author of the app has posted
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