Somebody in the thread at some point said: > Thanks Andy, for replying. > > nothing EE errors in the logs. > > Xorg.conf is very small and simple, does contain this section: > > Section "Device" > Identifier "Videocard0" > Driver "nv" > > the Xorg,0,log does have references to finding my card, an Nvidia > made 5200, it's mentioned. I had pretty good experience with nv in the past in terms of stability. There really should be something in one of the Xorg.*.log files that looks bad. Maybe try entering runlevel 3 telinit 3 which is text mode, and after logging in as root, type startx then try to provoke the crash, see what is left by the "dying breath" on the text console after the crash and once again look in /var/log/Xorg.0.log at the end. You can go back to normal runlevel 5 afterwards with telinit 5 > Sheesh, my Linux skills are rusty. On the other hand, I'm still > typing "ls -ltra" at the DOS prompt in windows, so I guess it > hasn't all faded away. Ooooh yes, I had to get freedos working on a CD to update a BIOS the other day, almost all my DOS-fu, dating back to 8086 times, has made way for Linux knowledge I am happy to say. Another thing to try to see if you can tie the problem down to the X driver is to set the driver to "vesa". This is ultra-stable and boring. If firefox can start with that then it strongly suggests nv is needed to make the problem. -Andy
