From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.01; Windows NT) In either KDE or GNOME the complete system hangs. Keyboard and all. I have to power cycle. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.Choose Linux from the LILO screen 2.Log on as either my user name or as root 3.Just open a few applications. No pattern here. I've tried many different apps; file managers, games, sysinfo; at random times the box will just lockup. This a dual boot machine. Win ME is stable.
Does it happen if you don't boot into X?
No, it only happens in X
My system consists of the following harware: Pentium 200MMX on an Intel AN430TX mb with 64M of ram Video card is a 2M Trident 9685 PCI It is configured as a stand alone workstation I'm using 2 2G hardrives. The first contains WinME, the second RH Linux 7.0
Please attach an X server log to the bug report.
I can't get to an X server log once the system hangs. The keyboard is useless. Would it be helpful to attach a log from when it's operating properly?
The X server logs are stored in /var/log. Without the log I cannot do anything. You'd have to run a debugger on your system, or send a backtrace from a coredump or something. When the machine locks up, reboot into text mode only, and snag a copy of the logs and your config file and attach them via the link below.
The problem disappears in 8bb mode and reappears when I try 16bb or higher. I think it's a video card problem.
Try using XFree86 3.3.6 instead. Xconfigurator --preferxf3 If that doesn't work, try disabling DRI with: Xconfigurator --preferxf3 --nodri Does this work for you?
I changed video cards. System works fine now. Thank you.