Constant crashes

[Alan]

On Sun, 2003-09-14 at 07:10, Alan Cox wrote:
> > random. And I installed the kernel from 9 which had not given me any
> > problem before and it still was happening. If there is any way to find
> > out why this is happening and currect it any advice would be
> > appreciated.
> 
> The two big components that can cause crashes tend to be the kernel and
> XFree86. You sy yo've switched the kernel back so the next experiment I'd
> do is to disable any 3D stuff in the /etc/X11/XF86Config in case its
> something 3D related and screensavers triggering hangs.

The first thing i tend to recommend on this sort of crashing problem is
to check to see if the memory has developed problems.  It may not be the
problem, but it is better to find up front than to spend weeks trying to
fix the unfixable.

http://www.memtest86.com/ is the best on I know of.  It is free and fits
on a floppy and/or bootable cd-rom.

-- 
Alan <alan at clueserver.org>