I have used in this machine Fedora core 2 and RHL9 and every once in a while I experience a lockup. The mouse pointer disappears, the keyboard lights don't switch, everything looks freezed. I can only hard reset the machine. This has happened with RHL9 and with FC2 with the default kernel and with kernels compiled by myself (kernel.org official kernels unpatched but I manually remove unneeded options). It has happened while connected to the net (dial up) and when not connected. When using some application and when using others. I have looked in the kernel log and all seems normal (no oops no panic) until it jumps in the timestamp to the moment I rebooted. I need help diagnosing the reason for this. The lockup happened twice one day, but it has been time where in a week or 2 it has not happened. I waited a while to see if it comes back, but it does not. I removed some cron tasks, but it happened again. Is there any driver that can cause this? I have some "unpopular" hardware. My video card is old (Diamond Steath 64 DRAM PCI) I think it is using the VESA driver. I have an internal ISA modem (USRobotics FAXMODEM Voice V.90) that I use as a regular serial port (it is not detected as a PnP card, but I point the system-config-network as /dev/ttyS2 as a serial port and it dials). It is a Soyo 7VBA motherboard, with a P3 1 Ghz 256 MB RAM. It has happened with and without the USB device enabled from the BIOS setup. It has always happened while I was working at it, that is moving the mouse, never when I leave it playing music or just turned on but not sitting at it. Can it be a mouse driver issue? I have a Genious NetScroll (with wheel) but I have to use it with the Microsoft intellimouse driver (serial) so it detects the wheel. I now believe it is some hardware/driver looping forever but how can I diagnose this? Thanks for reading all.
