Re: Radeon driver and Xfree86

2006-08-13 Thread José Alburquerque
Nick Wright wrote: Interesting -- that sounds like the machine is still running.. can you connect to it on SSH or ping it still when it gets into that state? If you can still log in then you might be able to just kill off the X process and have it start again without needing the reboot. Also, th

Re: Radeon driver and Xfree86

2006-08-13 Thread Nick Wright
> I too have been experiencing "lock ups" every so often, but I don't > think it's because of my graphics card (ATI Rage 128 Pro). With me it > happens a while after I leave xmms playing a bunch of mp3's (by then > xscreensaver has been active for a while). Sometimes the music will > just st

Re: Radeon driver and Xfree86

2006-08-13 Thread José Alburquerque
Nick Wright wrote: Unfortuantely the computer occasionally locks up (no kernel panic or anything helpful to go on here). I realise there are any number of reasons (hardware, software) that might be the cause of the random lockups. They're happening about once a week at the moment. I too have

Radeon driver and Xfree86

2006-08-12 Thread Nick Wright
Hi All, I have been using the proprietary driver from ATI to run my radeon 9600 in a dual-screen setup. Unfortuantely the computer occasionally locks up (no kernel panic or anything helpful to go on here). I realise there are any number of reasons (hardware, software) that might be the cause of t