Re: xwindows hangs abruptly

From: Brian Gerst (bgerst@quark.vpplus.com)
Date: Tue Jun 06 2000 - 09:55:39 EST


"K. Sandesh Rao" wrote:
>
> System Details
> AMD K6-2 350 Mhz ,VIA MVP7598 (moterboard) ,32 MB SDRAM,
> Cirrus Logic CLgd5465 (AGP), Yamaha (YMF 724 sound card),Seagate
> ST34312A,
> Logtech 3 button PS2 mouse.
>
> I've installed REDHAT LINUX 6 on my system.

Which version of Redhat 6.x, and which kernel version are you using?

>
> Problem
> Sytem hangs abruptly with absolutely nothing working (one of the
> keyboard light keeps
> flickering) when I run KDE or GNOME and on the MOVEMENT of the mouseor
> click
> of a mouse withdisplay remaining as it was. None of the system loggers
> or Magic Sysrq work.
> I invariably have to run fsck . I 've tried many options with the video
> card configuration
> (XF86Config) unsuccessfully. I do not know whether it is the problem
> with the motherboard
> or video card or mouse.

Can you log into the machine remotely (from the network or via a serial
connection)? It may just be X that is hung (giving the appearance that
the machine has crashed) and not the kernel.

--

Brian Gerst

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