I asked (about a series of crashes):
> Um. Some 3D drivers (especially closed source drivers) can do it.
>
> Is there any pattern to what's happening on the computer? Are you
> ever at it, or always away?
Tony Crouch replied:
> From what I can see there does not seem to be too much consistency
> with the freezes. The majority of the time the freezes occur under
> slightly higher than average CPU load (i.e. burning a CD or install a
> program). However, there have been occasions when the freezes have
> been while it is sitting (seemingly) idle.
>
> My video drivers are the standard drivers that come with FC4. My video
> card is an ATI IGP 345M.
I've had problems with lockups with a (PCI) Radeon 9250 (on x86_64), and
found that commenting out the line
# Load "dri"
and changing
# Driver "radeon"
to
Driver "ati"
in /etc/X11/xorg.conf ditches your 3D support, but gets you stability.
This might be worth experimenting with (depending on how much you value
3D).
Hope this helps,
James.
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