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  From: Ben Kramer <ben@webmedia.com.au>
  To  : Andreja Zivkovic <andy@zt.zivkotech.net.au>
  Date: Tue, 25 May 1999 09:33:14 +0000

Re: RedHat 6/GNOME/Enlightenment unstable?

Hi Andy,
I not sure if this will help...
I used to have my X crash all the time and then I changed video cards
from an old s3 to a new s3virge. The regularity of crashes has gone
down, but I still have the occasional crash caused from other faulty
hardware ( motherboard may be cracked or cheap ram) but I havent got the
money/time to find out what causes the crashes now. (actually now it is
getting rather bad as it wont boot every time I turn it on, I have to
try about 3-6 times to get the motherboard to start.... I will have to
start saving my $ as I cant leave it on 24/7/52)

Ben.....  :-)


Andreja Zivkovic wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I'm running RedHat 6, with GNOME and Enlightenment as my desktop/window
> managers, on my computer (PII, 64MB RAM, Daimond Viper 550. is that all
> the relevant information needed?) and I occasionally find that X windows
> just crashes for no reason at all. I have Linux run in init level 5, so X
> starts again, but it's rather annoying.
> 
> It just happened to me not even 5 minutes ago, and all I had running was
> x11amp, and it was loading netscape. It dumped core, if that makes any
> difference. When I came back, I ran top and saw that 33MB of the ram was
> used for cache, so I don't think it could be a memory problem.
> 
> Has anyone else had similar problems and fixed it? does anyone know how I
> could try to identify what is causing the problem (apart from trying
> different desktop/window managers, if possible)?
> 
> thanks,
> Andy

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