Fedora Core 2 freeze after several minutes/hours

[Jim Cornette]

e98cuenc at free.fr wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> I'm running FC2 on a PIII 733Mhz with a Powercolor graphic card (powered by an
> ATI 7500).
> 
> After a few (1-2) hours of use, it stops dead for no obvious reason (doing
> nothing CPU intensive, sometimes just reading a local html page with mozilla).
> 
> Everything is freezed, including the mouse. I've reproduced the same problem
> with another card (a nvidia GeForce 2).
> 
> It doesn't seems to happen when I don't run X (that's why I suspected the
> graphic card...), but I have still not remained for hours on without X, so I
> don't know for sure.
> 
> Does anybody have any hints about what can I try to get some info about this
> freeze?
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> 

Old message but did a search on mtrr because of a response on an X 
problem related to initial startup of X when computer is freshly booted.

I believe that the search brought up how to set values there. A modified 
search brings up these leads.

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&q=mtrr+and+ati+7500+video&btnG=Search

In regards to the other computer that seems to lockup on me w/ X running 
for about 2 hrs. I left the computer run overnight without X. Then after 
I did some CLI usage for awhile, I started X and picked the electronics 
circuit screensaver. It ran without failure for over 3 hours. I left X 
running overnight, so I will know tomorrow if it is tickled by a certain 
screensaver.

Good luck, two hours before crashing X is not very practical.

Jim
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