Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 11 Jul 2001 01:56:07 -0700 (PDT) | From | Chris Vandomelen <> | Subject | Re: Athlon Thunderbird, Abit KT7 Raid, Kernel 2.4: DESKTOP FROZEN! |
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> My box: Athlon Thunderbird 900 MHz, MotherboardAbit KT7 Raid, > Kernel 2.4 (the one that comes with Red Hat 7.1 no updates) > > I get apparently random desktop freezing.
Hmm, I have a similar machine. K7-800, KT7 RAID, 2.4.5 kernel (was .0 at install time).
> > Last time: > > I was just doing nothing so the screensaver > was on when I noticed the screen was frozen. Nor the keyboard > neither the mouse worked. No combination of CTRL-ALT keys. > Only choice left: reset. I did it. When it booted again I got a > > Kernel Panic: Attempted to kill the idle task > In idle: not syncing.
Err.. attempted to kill the idle task? Are you sure you don't have an overheating processor?
> > (by the way: what is the SysRq magic or something similar? > Does it help? Which keys??) >
SysRq will only help if the machine is responsive; and then even still it's not going to correct issues like overheating processors and etc.
<snip> > > Is this really a KDE problem? I myself doubt... > It could be a kernel problem or maybe hardware (I checked > all the ram and removed one, but freezing is still there) >
Shhouldn't be a problem with KDE. It *could* be with X, since (unless you're using the framebuffer driver), it's directly accessing the hardware.
Try starting up to a console and building a kernel with fb support, and then use X through that and see if that solves any problems. (I haven't had a single crash since; just that, for some reason, the sysrq key gets disabled on startup and occasionally a framebuffer program will crash and take my keyboard along with it. "Oops".)
> Thanks for any help, I am in trouble!! > > Antonio > > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ >
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