Slackware vs the others

[Michael Butash]

Last time that happened to me under linux, the video card was on the 
fritz.  Got worse enough it finally just died (mass distortion of 
display on boot), replaced it, and never locked up again.  I've had 
memory (ram) cause this kind of thing, saw a crappy WD external drive 
enclosure do it too (pc bios wouldn't boot with it connected either, 
replaced enclosure).  Most hard locks I always suspect hardware now.

I bet largely it's using a different driver, or it's not loading a video 
driver to use gpu.  As long as something isn't using a feature, the 
system doesn't lock.  GPU went out on my laptop where as soon as compiz 
kicked in, the display would wig out, but using 2d/safemode only was 
just fine.  I think you might have a similar problem.

-mb


On 01/07/2013 07:25 PM, Derek Trotter wrote:
> This machine had ssh installed. When I say it locked up, it locked up.
> Nothing worked. Ssh wouldn't work. Http wouldn't work. It just stopped
> responding to anything.
>