Massive instability problems
 

I'm going nuts. Just bought a new system, hardware seems fine, yet Linux will not stay up for more than 5 minutes.

My system is Celeron 2.66, Asus p5s800-VM motherboard, 256 mb RAM.

I first installed Ubuntu 5.10, then removed it completely and installed VectorLinux SOHO 5.0.1. I have also booted the system with Knoppix and Puppy Linux.

All have similar problems: windows randomly disappear, especially Firefox, KDE goes crazy, system hangs, and on Vector all open processes die (including sometimes KDE) and I am asked to login again.

I have checked all the hardware to the best of my ability including HD, CPU and RAM. I have updated the BIOS.

What is the problem???

thanks in advance
mondy

video driver / x problems
x is only stable these days if you know how to setup vidoe config to avoid all the unstable parts.

Thanks foo. I think you might have hit the nail on the head. The main (but not only) symptom seems to be X spontaneously restarting.

Any tips on how to correctly configure x/video drivers? I'm very much a noob, any help appreciated.

mondy