[Evolution] Re: [Galeon-user] Regular total lockups with 1.0.1 (and earlier)

[Rick Ziegler <zieglerr certco com>]

My fathers machine does have a SB Live!.
Is another common denominator finally emerging for these freezes?

On Thu, 2001-12-20 at 15:50, Christian Rose wrote:
> tor 2001-12-20 klockan 20.00 skrev Victor Putz:
> > Quite regularly, when browsing with Galeon, my system will simply freeze
> > and become completely unresponsive; no mouse movement, no keyboard motion.
> > It will ignore attempts to switch to different TTY console windows, will
> > shrug aside control-alt-delete, and even disregards attempts to telnet
> > from my wife's computer in the next room (even with X and the console
> > completely frozen, I've almost always been able to telnet in from next
> > door and shut down properly).
> >
> > The only thing which recovers the system is the hardware reset button or a
> > power-down.  Luckily I'm running RH7.2 with ext3fs, so a reboot isn't very
> > traumatic, but it disturbs me quite a bit.
> >
> > Any ideas on what the problem could be?  I'm using the Galeon 1.0.1 rpm
> > for RHL, the mozilla 0.9.6 packages, and the prebuilt 2.4.9-13 kernel rpm.
> > The system is quite solid otherwise and I can leave it running for days
> > until I surf the web.  Galeon options have Java/Flash off, Javascript
> > disabled, popups off.
>
> Do you have a SoundBlaster Live! card in your system? Try removing it
> and replace it with another sound card. That solved my problems; before
> the machine froze completely at least once a day, now I haven't had a
> single problem since, and more than 31 days of uptime.
>
> Also, you could try unsetting "Gnome sound events" in the control center
> to see if it helps.
>
>
> Christian
>
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