spavri@vsnl.com wrote:
Hi,
I have a new (as in a couple of months old) machine. The specs are: 2.4 G P4, i845 integrated graphics card, 512 ram, 500 mb swap, 80G hdd, 15 inch Sony tft monitor. I have FC4 and Kubuntu 5.10 on the machine.
Even in 845 chipsets, I found that the ubuntu live 5.10 cd gives different resolutions for different brand mobos. The worst resolution was in Mercury brand. Intel original was good. So even that makes a difference. IBM laptop was good, sound/video/CDMA wireless card all made for each other.
The problem I face is that every once in a while, the X server crashes. In FC4 I am back at the graphical login prompt. In kubuntu I just lose the display completely and I have to shutdown. This can happen as frequently as once evry 5 or 10 minutes :(
Do you keep witching between GUI and Crtl+Alt+F1-7 Terminal? This is a problem in my system too. (P4 2.4, 80 Gb, i845 original)
Sometimes I get kernel panic messages when the Xserver crashes.
This happened in my FC4 after I had loaded ubuntu 5.04. It started the next day. I did a clean re-install and kept only one system and now I am doing fine. Text terminal mode still does not work. Otherwise if you reload both, try loading FC4 last.
Another thing is that in FC4, both Firefox (upgraded to 1.0.7 from fedora updates) and Opera crash very frequently. Also Gkrellm crashes suddenly.
Are you using a very high screen resolution? Don't go beyond 1024x768.
Regards,
Rony.
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