Re: Help, help, help!!!

[Christian Rose <menthos menthos com>]

tis 2002-07-30 klockan 09.15 skrev Tuomas Kuosmanen:
> Does this also happen with a non-NVidia driver? Those used to be a bit
> unstable at least before, though I heard the quality of the binary-only
> stuff has improved lately. But system hangs definitely sound like the
> videocard locking up or some other hardware related problem. Or you
> might also check your RAM chips, one of them might be bad..? User
> applications definitely have hard time crashing the kernel. Somehow I
> suspect the video driver.
> 
> Another common thing to these is that everything uses the network, so
> what kind of network card do you have, and what drivers? They could
> crash too, though I dont think it is very likely if the card is one of
> the common ones, the Linux network drivers are pretty stable in my
> experience.

One thing I've experienced in the past is that ESD can trigger a bug in
the Sound Blaster Live! chipset soundcard driver (emu10k1), causing the
kernel to freeze without warning at seemingly random times
(https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=57564). Using
newer Sound Blaster Live! drivers (called "emu10k1_new" in Red Hat
kernels) solved the issue completely for me and friends who experienced
the same thing.

If Damian has a Sound Blaster Live! card, this could be the reason. In
any case, this is not a GNOME problem but a kernel-level problem, even
if GNOME happens to be the only environment triggering this.


Christian