I have a PC164 with an S3 Virge PCI card. I'm running RedHat 6.0 with the latest kernel (2.2.5-22), and XFree86 updates from the redhat updates directory. I'm using the SVGA server, and seemingly at random the whole machine locks up. Solid. Sometimes after only a few minutes of being in X. No matter what window manager I'm using or what is being run. It's been happening sometimes after a few minutes, sometimes a half hour to an hour. But it's usually after a few minutes. Why is X freezing the whole machine? I mean it becomes unreachable over the net. Totally dead. I have to hit reset to reboot. HELP!!! ------- Additional Comments From 11/08/99 22:40 ------- I have the same problem on an Intel PII box... I reload the system and it is fine for a few weeks, then suddenly the system starts to lock up. usually within 5 minutes of starting.
I'm in the same boat, I lose all control of kbrd and mouse and have to switch off and reboot. I have a K6/2-300, Diamond ViperV330, 96Mb, Logitech Mouseman+ ps/2, MS (yuk) Natural Keyboard. Mine will run fine for weeks on end, then will have a bout of locking up unexpectedly, It sometimes even boots in a frozen state. I've tried GDM and KDM and booting to the command line and gui login screens, using both Gnome/Enlightenment and KDE, regardless of what combination I use the prob still persists. There is nothing in any of the log files (var/log/messages/*) that record the error, and no core is dumped, that I can find.
these are all symptoms of kernel bugs interacting with your hardware, folks, not X. Without more information, we won't be able to see what's going on, either. We need oops reports, etc. If you aren't getting anything in /var/log/messages, you'll need to hook up a serial console to capture a trace. Not trivial, I know. My next best suggestion is to wait for the next release, as the kernel has many small fixes.