No, it's really the lance driver. I never compile lance.c and pcnet32.c
into the kernel at the same time to keep it smaller.
> > The kernel log is filled with
> > Jan 16 18:46:12 nomad kernel: eth0: Tx FIFO error! Status a2e2.
>
> That means that the device is having problems because it is being held off
> the bus for too long.
>
> > 2.0.33 had no such problems as far as I've seen.
>
> If you boot 2.0.33 and run your current Xserver and configuration is this still
> true ?
It will take some time to discover if the sudden death of the lance
driver happens with 2.0.33.
The other thing, the stress test with X11 apps seems to happen with 2.0.33
too. I've tried to renice X11 to priority 20 (2.0.33 & 2.2.0-pre7) and
`x11perf -a' isn't a problem anymore but snes9x. (Instead of snes9x it's
also possible to create a 400x200 GIF image with 2 pictures, a delay of 1ms
and display it using either Netscape or XAnim.)
My X11 setup: XFree 3.3.3, Cirrus Logic GD 5436.
Mark
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