-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 It would appear that on Jun 8, Scot L. Harris did say: > On Tue, 2004-06-08 at 20:51, Ragone_Andrew wrote: > > I have just installed Mandrake over the Fedora Core 2 distro that I > > had intended to install. Installation went fine but I figureed I would > > try this distro as FC2 kept randomly freezing and giving me blank > > screens (not sending data to the monitor so that it goes into a sleep > > mode). > > > > I booted up Mandrake today and it froze so I restarted as FC2 once > > What size power supply do you have? With that many drives you might be > exceeding the power supply specs. > > It could also be a heat problem. Since it happens in two different > version of Linux it sounds like it is not an OS problem. > > Run memtest to check your memory and make sure you have sufficient > cooling. > > I had a system that would occasionally hang. Had pretty much ruled > everything out except heat as a problem. Added several fans to the > system as well as new heat sink. Finally replaced the mother board and > it has not hung since. I'm wondering if it's more like kernel version specific rather than distro version specific.... And/or if he actually installed mandrake right "over" his problematic FC2 without wiping out all the old files then... There may be some hardware related parts to this of course, But I'm doubting this is as simple as an overheating problem. See my experiences below. I too have had similar problems with FC2 lately, My hardware hasn't changed. It didn't happen with mdk 9.1, RH 9 or FC1. And it didn't happen right away with FC2 either. I'm not sure this part is related, but a few weeks ago my screen saver stopped working properly... It worked when it was supposed to but the selected graphic display didn't appear on the screen anymore. I played with the screen saver set-up and found that I could choose another display, but that the one I had been using no longer generated a VISIBLE display. There had been a few that didn't seam to work on my system anyway, so I didn't think much of it. I accepted a different display and thought no big deal. Then about a week later I started getting these random lockups. sometimes my screen would go blank while I was actively typing in an "konsole" terminal window. But in that case if I kept hitting keys it came right back. At other times I'd set it to doing something like opening a large newsgroup folder with pine and check back a few minutes later to find it dark, cold & basically dead listening to none of the keys nor the mouse. Had to use the power switch to force a reboot. Sometimes I leave it unattended for a FEW hours without a problem. sometimes as little as 20 minutes to find it comatose. All I know is every time I caught it happening I could stop it with the keyboard or mouse. And every time I came back to it having already happening, NOTHING short of the power switch worked. I tried disabling the monitor power settings of my intel P3 desktop with a rage 128 video card Didn't help, So I turned them back on and disabled the screen saver ( I unchecked the box that says to start the screen saver automatically ) and I haven't had the problem since... I have a 40gig and a 60gig ide harddrive a dvd-rom and a cd-rw drive plus a 3.5 floppy, an ethernet card and one USB powered peripheral (an Memorex scanner that doesn't use much when it's not actively scanning...) I still have both my MDK9.1 & a backup FC1 installed, neither of them have at any time had this problem. I searched the archives for similar and there was a similar thread with FC2 and an Athelon 64 called "Random Screen Blank on startup all the Time." and another topic called, "Turning of the screensavers" in which one person had this kind of problem with FC1 and someone replied that they had experienced something like it with RH9 and solved it by disabling the screen saver... ( which is where I got the idea to try that) I don't really know what the problem is, But I'm just glad all I had to give up was the pretty screen savers that I never spent much time looking at anyway. - -- | --- --- | Joe (theWordy) Philbrook <o> <o> | J(tWdy)P ^ | <<jtwdyp@xxxxxxxx>> /---\ "bla bla bla..." | \___/ "...and bla..." At least I know my mouth is running, I just can't find the off button! ############################################################## # You can find my public gpg key at http://pgpkeys.mit.edu/ # ############################################################## -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFAx4xGRZ/61mwhY94RAoAsAJ9F+2fKpiWw897SiRpuSrJ6uUz2FwCg0XSN 3UQum/be2hwI6u84lMpAaZY= =0GkG -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
