[ale] Semi random lock ups

[Patrick Ramsey]

I can see this....

Try runnning win98 on a 486....

Remember, where linux runs outstanding on a 486, Xfree is a resource hog... If I were you I would try running xfree witha little "less" desktop than kde/gnome.  Maybe I cant even remember the default manage xfree comes with it's been so long ago.... But I do remember having x running on a 4/66
without locking up.  It was very slow...but it worked...

>>> Jeff Hubbs <hbbs at bellsouth.net> 07/15/99 11:46AM >>>
Actually, I'm having a similar problem on a 486DX/33.  It doesn't matter which resolution I use, whether I'm using Gnome or KDE, or whether I use a serial or PS/2 mouse, it's very easy for me to make the X server crash or lock up the machine totally.  It'll run forever either without
X or with X that isn't touched.

What's frustrating is that since the networking doesn't work right either, I haven't been able to reliably xdm to it from another machine.

Same machine hasn't been able to run Win3.1 or 95 either.  It's just a bad, bad, machine but it's the only 2nd computer I have.

- Jeff

Patrick Ramsey wrote:

> If she is anything like my girlfriend, she is probabl;y and impatient "clickest"
>
> If the program doesn't instantly come up as soon as she clicks it, she clicks 50 times more....then in about 2 minutes there are 50 proccesses open of netscape and 50 errors saying there is already a copy running, and 50 ok buttons to click and then usually the computer hangs....
>
> hehe
>
> >>> Nick Lucent <nlucent at mindspring.com> 07/14/99 09:01PM >>>
> My girlfriends monitor went bad, and until we have time to get it fixed
> (only 3 months old!) she has been using my computer, and it has been locking
> up on her almost every time she uses it (mostly just using netscape). But it
> never locks up on me. Does anyone know of a way I could trace this? There is
> nothing in the logs, and I cant ssh in after it hangs to shut it down
> properly.
>
> Nick
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