I am running SuSE 7.0 with the 2.2.18? kernel. I have not compiled my own kernel before. Last night when attempting to upgrade to XFree86 4.1 I somehow f**ked up my configuration and can now only run X as root and I don't know what changed to cause that to happen. I had backed up my entire partition so the original configuration files are around but I am not sure which files I should restore to get back to my original configuration.

I am contemplating upgrading to SuSE 7.2 with the 2.4.x kernel and reformatting my partition to be a Rieserfs file system. Is this configuration likely to be any more stable than my current configuration?

-----Original Message-----
From: Ben Dow [mailto:bdow@WPI.EDU]
Sent: Monday, August 06, 2001 10:43 PM
To: wlug@mail.wlug.org
Subject: Re: [Wlug] System crash

Well, XFree86 4.1 is out, which is what I was referring to, but as far as
I know, that's a really well-supported video card (the chipset's been
around forever)... what kernel are you running?  Is it a stock Suse
kernel?  Do you know how to compile your own, if it might help?

On Mon, 6 Aug 2001, Michael Long wrote:

> I saw on the suse website where there is an updated version of XFree86
> (4.0.2) as well as an updated xloader and xmodules packages. I will be
> installing these and see if this solves the problem.
>
> As for my system components:
> ABIT KT7-RAID Motherboard w/ an Athlon 800
> ATI Rage 128 video card
> SoundBlaster Live
> 2 Realtek RTL8139B ethernet cards
> 2 DiamondMax Hard drives
> Toshiba CD-RW/DVD-ROM #SD-R1002
>
> The output from lspci is:
> 00:00.0 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc.: Unknown device 0305 (rev 02)
> 00:01.0 PCI bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc.: Unknown device 8305
> 00:07.0 ISA bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C686 [Apollo Super] (rev 22)
> 00:07.1 IDE interface: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C586 IDE [Apollo] (rev 10)
> 00:07.2 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C586B USB (rev 10)
> 00:07.3 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C586B USB (rev 10)
> 00:07.4 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C686 [Apollo Super ACPI] (rev
> 30)
> 00:09.0 Communication controller: Lucent Microelectronics Venus Modem (V90,
> 56KFlex)
> 00:0b.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL-8139 (rev 10)
> 00:0d.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL-8139 (rev 10)
> 00:0f.0 Multimedia audio controller: Creative Labs SB Live! EMU10000 (rev 08)
> 00:0f.1 Input device controller: Creative Labs SB Live! (rev 08)
> 00:13.0 Unknown mass storage controller: Triones Technologies, Inc. HPT366
> (rev 03)
> 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc Rage 128 RF
>
>
> On Monday 06 August 2001 11:34, you wrote:
> > I've seen this kind of thing happen for 2 reasons I've been able to figure
> > out on my systems... after running XFree86 4 for a few minutes with my
> > Diamond (since taken over by S3, now SonicBlue... it's so hard to keep
> > track) Stealth III S540 (based on the Savage 4 or 4+, I think), the system
> > will lock up hard... 3.3.6 was no problem, and I haven't tried the latest
> > version of X, which is now supposed to have special drivers for that
> > chipset, and it tends to happen much more often than once every few days,
> > but since I know nothing about your system, I thought I'd mention it...
> > The other thing that seems to cause it is a lot of hard disk activity on
> > an Intel PIIX3 controller (for an old Pentium/166).  Copying large files
> > to/from a Reiserfs partition with DMA enabled seems to really do the trick
> > (I should probably send in a kernel bug report, really)... but that's
> > another possibility, I guess.  Again, tell us some more about your system
> > (lspci often gives useful information).
> > Now to wake up.
> >
> > Ben
> >
> > On Mon, 6 Aug 2001, Long, Mike wrote:
> > > Hi all,
> > >
> > > I have been having problems with my system locking to the point where I
> > > needed to press the reset button to recycle the box. Well, this happened
> > > again and this time things are not working properly after bringing the
> > > system back up. I have been able to start networking services and I can
> > > start KDE desktop but none of my X applications will run. Now I have
> > > several questions:
> > >
> > > 1) What type of problems could have been created by an improper shutdown
> > > of the box?
> > > 2) Will reinstalling KDE fix this problem?
> > > 3) How do I go about figuring out what is causing my machine to lock up?
> > > It is happening frequently (every few days)
> > >    and when I am doing different things. I have not been able to
> > > determine a pattern.
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > Thanks,
> > > Mike
> >
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