-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 It would appear that on Jul 17, Scot L. Harris did say: > Are you running a screen saver when it locks up? There is anecdotal > evidence that some of the GL screen savers will cause some systems to > lock up. In support of that "anecdotal evidence" I'll tell you that I had similar problems under FC2. At least while running both a screen saver & the vmlinuz-2.6.5-1.358 kernel. I have been running this same PC, with the same internal hardware, as a multi-boot machine since I it came with Win98se & SuSE 7.3 pre-installed. I currently have 4 linux installed, including FC1 with the vmlinuz-2.4.22-1.2188.nptl kernel and FC2 with vmlinuz-2.6.6-1.435 I have also run MDK 8.2, & 9.1 Plus redhat 9.0 & slackware 8.0. not to mention mepis & knoppix3.4... And the ONLY time I experienced random lockups was with FC2 using the vmlinuz-2.6.5-1.358 kernel _AND_ a screen saver. Before I upgraded the kernel (or rather allowed yum to...) I solved the problem by going to the screen saver settings and unchecking the "Start screen saver automatically" check-box, and poof, my lock-up problems went away... Then after a while I turned it back on. and again started experiencing the random lock-ups... I then gave up on the screen saver until I accepted the vmlinuz-2.6.6-1.435 kernel. Which hasn't given me a single lockup while my current "rapid motion"->laser screen saver is enabled... (course, I heard that most of the screen saver related tales turned out to be a system using an OpenGL screen saver, and made a point to not select one of them this time around) I wouldn't rule out a hardware, or cooling issue, but turning off the screen saver for a while is a real cheap test. To the OP, Good luck - -- | --- ___ | <0> <-> Joe (theWordy) Philbrook | ^ J(tWdy)P | ~\___/~ <<jtwdyp@xxxxxxxx>> ############################################################## # You can find my public gpg key at http://pgpkeys.mit.edu/ # ############################################################## -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFA+YTdRZ/61mwhY94RArdBAKDPUfzw/x28IGW9HzTlK/YZ0e2z9ACeIYsN +iPAob2OpPomwl+yyx3MBfg= =waWZ -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
