Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Wed, 11 Jul 2001 04:56:36 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Wed, 11 Jul 2001 04:56:26 -0400 Received: from b0rked.dhs.org ([216.99.196.11]:11912 "HELO b0rked.dhs.org") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id ; Wed, 11 Jul 2001 04:56:10 -0400 Date: Wed, 11 Jul 2001 01:56:07 -0700 (PDT) From: Chris Vandomelen To: Antonio Pagliaro Cc: Subject: Re: Athlon Thunderbird, Abit KT7 Raid, Kernel 2.4: DESKTOP FROZEN! In-Reply-To: <01071023392004.02550@lila.localdomain> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org > 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. > > 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/ > - 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/