On 2/26/11, Bruno Wolff III <bruno@xxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Sat, Feb 26, 2011 at 20:02:26 +0100, > Andras Simon <szajmi@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> >> The crashes seem to happen more frequently when I'm doing something >> interactively (even if it's just browsing, running yum). This morning >> it was running for hours under heavy load with no problems, but >> crashed a few minutes after I started interacting with it. It seems I was too eager to find a clue: just now it crashed while I was away (in the middle of installing a lot of packages). > That sounds potentially like a video driver issue. If you are using compiz, > you could try metacity instead as that does less 3D stuff. No compiz here. And crashes happen without X running. > Nouveau seems better in F15, but upower tweaks an issue that causes annoying > screen flashes every 30 seonds and for at least some nVidia cards (including > an nv28 I have on one machine), the blank period is about 1/2 second. Back in the summer, I was also suspicious about nouveau, until I tried the nvidia driver... > Once the alpha release is out, you might try a live image of it to see if > that resolves your crashing problem. In fact I'm planning to try a 32 bit F14 live image first, if I can keep this thing alive for long enough to write out a cd (this MB doesn't boot from a usb stick). Andras -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
