In my case I did a clean install of 2005. Brand new xorg.conf, and everything.

@qscomputing - I did a clean install as well. I expereinced some problems upgrading from mdk 10.0 to 10.1 so when mandriva came out I wiped my linux partitions clean.

with regards to power, I had a ups when I did an install of the mandriva. That ups went down (still have no yet gone around to getting it fix) several days later. Now my pc is just connected to an old line conditioner I had from my previous pc.

@padma - since we have the same video card, do you ecperience mandriva trying to install an ati module during startup but failing? I also noticed that you have 10.1 installed. Are you experiencing the same problems with 10.1 as with mandriva?

Add me to the list on this one too. I had the same problems on 10.1 but 10.0 ran solid for weeks so what changed from 10.0 to 10.1. The problem is worse with 10.2 though now I am crashing in hours instead of days. If I recall 10.0 didn't have xorg not quite sure on that though. It used the old X86 I am not 100% sure on that though I will have to check on that.

so it could be xorg? Mandriva uses 6.8.2, 10.1 used 6.7. Are there any updates for xorg 6.8.2 available?

Also are we all using kde 3.3.2? How trying gnome or icewm and see if we still freeze?

Well, my problem seemed to be caused by a misconfiguration in xorg.conf, so an incompatible GLX library was being used. I haven't experinced any crashes since then, but it's probably too early to reliably tell.

I too am experiencing dkms trying to install a module at startup - the nvidia module. It fails with error code 5.

Mandriva published some updates on Saturday, which contains some updates for xorg. You could try installing those updates to see if it fixes the problem.

about the dkms error see
http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...hreadid=316794

Am monitoring the thread as I had problems from 10.1 to 10.2,
but looking less severes than yours

@qscomputing yes it could be a misconfigured xorg.cong along with some faulty driver installation. I reformated my linux partition and did a clean install. Only this time I did not install the ati drivers (so I don't have opengl support at the moment). It's been 2 hours since I booted and mandriva is still running. I'll try this out fully over the weekend and see if my installation won't freeze.

Hmmm. It *might* be an xorg configuration thing.

I didn't have any problem when I used 10.1, and I haven't wanted to go back to it for long enough to test it properly (last time it went over 5 days before freezing). But I had the ati drivers installed in 10.1, and I basically copied that xorg.conf file to my 10.2. But I had to tweak a few things, because I didn't bother to install the ati drivers yet. (The open-source "radeon" drivers work very well with my old 9000 Pro card. )