[ale] ASUS P5MT question

[James Sumners]

Are you using the official ATi Linux driver or the one that comes with
Xorg? I am RMAing a drive today because of the POS ATi driver. I made
the mistaking of believe the changelog when it said "fixed hang-up
issues" and installing the new version (ditching the Xorg driver). As
was the case with the previous version, it caused my SuSE 10.1 machine
to stop responding once the damn screensaver kicked in. I had to hard
reset the machine and in doing so acquired a few hundred bad sectors
and some drive seek errors on my the main drive.

On 7/22/06, Dow_Hurst <dhurst at mindspring.com> wrote:

> It is possible that the onboard ATI graphics and the BIOS have a problem since most crashes occurred when I had the console logged in as root.  Another possibility is that powersaved was generating some directive that caused a crash.  I'm guessing now.  I have one other thought about power in general:


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James Sumners
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"All governments suffer a recurring problem: Power attracts
pathological personalities. It is not that power corrupts but that it
is magnetic to the corruptible. Such people have a tendency to become
drunk on violence, a condition to which they are quickly addicted."

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