my crashing box

[proudhawk@uswestmail.net]

Same here.
its a bug in Gnome (so far as I am able to tell).
I turn off the screen saver and let the apm vid blanker take over
and the system works fine for weeks..


On Thu, 01 February 2001, Dr Lyman Hazelton wrote:

> 
> I've had the same problem with RH-7.0, and have tracked it down to the screen
> saver (under Gnome/Sawfish).  I have not been able to figure out why it is
> doing
> this, but it shows up in the dump.  This cause is corroborated by the fact
> that
> turning off the screen saver results in the system staying up forever.
> 
> At 11:37 AM 2/1/01 -0700, you wrote:
> >What keyboard are you using.  The new wireless Logitech keyboards are known 
> >to hang linux for no apparent reasons..
> >
> >
> >At 10:25 AM 2/1/01 -0800, Lucas Vogel wrote:
> >>I am having a really hard time troubleshooting why my box will randomly
> >>freeze. I am running a SuSE 6.4 box w/ 192 MB RAM, a Diamond Speedstar A55
> >>8MB AGP video card, a Voodoo2 card, an Ensoniq ES1371 sound card(?), a
> >>D-Link(tulip) NIC, and I can't remember the name of the motherboard with an
> >>AMD K-3 333 chip. On occasion, for reasons I can't figure out, my 

system
> >>will all of a sudden completely lock up. The user input devices will not
> >>respond at all, and I have to do a hard reboot. It seems to be doing this
> >>with increased frequency lately; I used to think it was a software
> >>problem(something to do with the drivers for my sound card) but I'm now
> >>starting to suspect maybe it really is a hardware problem. Any guesses
> >>and/or recommendations would be greatly appreciated in figuring out what's
> >>causing this to crash.
> >>
> >>Thanks
> >>
> >>===========================
> >>Lucas Vogel
> >>Exponent, Inc.
> >>lvogel@exponent.com
> >>623-587-6739    work
> >>623-587-4191    cell
> >>===========================
> >>http://www.exponent.com
> >>
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