When in sawfish is activeted the sounds on events, the system hangsup after a few minutes when you work under gnome. It is not possible to switch to virtual console to kill the process, all the system is frozen. So it is necessary to reboot the system by pressing the power button.
This has to be an X server or kernel bug; can you tell us what sound card and video card you have?
sorry for the delay in my answer: Here it is the informations you requested: 1) The video card is a MGA 100 AGP with 8MB of VRAM 2) I don't have a sound card, instead I have a sound chip integradted on the motherboard. Thanks Roberto
What kind of integrated sound chip (what do you get if you run 'lspci')?
The sound chip on my motherboard is: Elite PCI Audio CMI8738. I hope that this can help you to solve my problem.
Assiging to kernel - looks like a bug in the cmpci driver.
I've got the same problem with Gnome/sawfish and the Yamaha YMF-724F based card installed in my dual P3 box (ymfsb.o driver). It plays sounds for a while then hangs the system (not even SysRq works). The lspci reports the following sound/video devices: 00:0b.0 Multimedia audio controller: Yamaha Corporation YMF-724F [DS-1 Audio Controller] (rev 03) 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation Riva TnT 128 [NV04] (rev 04) Could this be an SMP sound issue? Or do you still suspect Gnome/sawfish/X?
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