i have a prob with my linux it's stucks (freaze),i think it's hardware prob,here is my comp

p3 800Mhz
128 SDRAM
ESS 1868 soundcard(ISA)
riva tnt m64
motherboard -pcphartner
lan card-realtek

can it be hardware problem?

i have linux mandrake 9.1 now but i tried RH9 too and it's stucks too...

what my be the prob?

tnx,
alex

after using RH8, and MDK 9.1 and trying all kind of rpm kernel upgrades and new drivers modules installing and bla bla bla, I switched to Linus kernel 2.6.0-test, and no more freezes. Not even one.

With kernel 2.4.whatever, my laptop freezed once each three days al least.
I can tell you, I tried " e v e r y t h i n g " with 2.4.X. (And I've been compiling linux kernels for seven years) with no success at all.

It's not a good linux kernel. I'm sorry as Marcelo did a good work, but it's not enough.

how can i change my karnel to 2.6.0-test?

well, there are 2 ways:

1º- I've heard MDK 9.2 supplies a kernel 2.6 package. Do some research.
2º- Download and compile yourself. Not an easy task, but you'll learn a lot.
Can take you some 6 hours reading documentation and several nights playing with it, but there's lot of support.

Also, compiling these 2.6 new kernels is extremely easy compared to the 2.4 or 2.2 ones.

Just bear in mind that it is still a "beta" release, but also note that for Linus (Torvalds) to yet consider it beta (or "test" as he names it) it has to be PRETTY STABLE.

www.kernel.org

google for kernel+compiling+howto

Hey,

Just wanted to share an experience I had:

Video card. I was using a cheap 8 MB AGP video card with Red Hat 8.0, and every time I signed in to KDE or Gnome, and did ANYTHING, the entire system would go up in flames.

If I logged into another display, and never loaded X, it ran fine.

You will probably want to swap hardware in/out of the system until you find out what the problem is.

As far as the 2.4 kernel being bad, well I don't know about that. It is currently used in production use in many places, not the least being web servers. 2.6 is going to have major improvements with database access, multiple processor support, etc.

It's most likely your hardware.

I'd suggest grabbing the latest stable copy of the 2.4 kernel and compile it for the experience. It is well worth the effort.

I'd wait for 2.6 until it gets released as a mainstream kernel, and has proven itself stable.

That's just my opinion. Good luck whatever you do!

what card do you have?

Yeah, could be video card RAM.

Check that the exact amount of RAM in your video card is reflected in your XWindows config file (probably /etc/XF86Config-4 ) (if not, try with /etc/XF86Config )

If you say X that your video RAM is 16 (i.e.) and you've only got 8, then it will always crash.

ok tnx,i'll try this...