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From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.01; Windows NT 5.0) Description of problem: I've seen this problem on several different machines. The X Server randomly crashes and restarts. Sometimes it happens a few times a day, and sometimes it runs steady for several days without problem. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Sometimes Steps to Reproduce: The problem is that it is hard to reproduce - the problem is quite random and there doesn't seem to be any specific chain of events that triggers it. Once the XServer crashed when I closed KPackage by clicking on the "X" on the top RH side of the Window, but doing the same the a second time did not cause a crash..... Additional info: I looked in the XFree logs on both machines and I couldn't find anything to point to the reason for the problems....
I am using Redhat 7.2 i386 on a Compaq Presario 5190 with an ATI Radeon 32mb SDR. I have used both Xconfigurator and xf86config to configure X. When I run startx after configuration, the screen appears distorted and becomes unresponsive immediately. From the console, the only solution is to reboot. This is very aggrevating.
Are you running the latest Red Hat updated kernel-2.4.9-13, as well as other packages that have been updated since 7.2 was released?
The latest kernel is 2.4.9-21 now. XFree86 4.1.0-15 is also released as erratum. Please upgrade your system to both, as well as the other required packages such as Mesa, etc. I cannot reproduce your problem on any of my systems with several Radeon cards, so if the problem still exists after upgrading to the current updated software packages we have released, I strongly suspect it is buggy hardware. Check your motherboard manufacturer's website for BIOS flash ROM updates and apply if they have an update. Please reopen the bug report if you still experience these problems after upgrading the above, and supply file attachments of your X server log, your "messages" log, and your X configuration file. Use the file attachment link to attach them please. Also provide the output of the following commands: uname -a lspci -vvv lspci -n cat /proc/cpuinfo