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Oh - and I did check the BIOS, too - I have the most recent Dell |
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BIOS. |
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Gabe. |
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> -----Original Message----- |
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> From: Stuart Stegall [mailto:stuart@×××××××××××××.com] |
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> Sent: Monday, October 25, 2004 12:43 PM |
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> To: 'Paul de Vrieze'; gentoo-desktop@l.g.o |
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> Subject: RE: [gentoo-desktop] X freezing? |
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> To add further fun to this equation, Dell laptops have notoriously |
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> broken bios' and is probably part of the problem. I use an Inspiron |
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> 1100 and depending on what version of X Windows I wish to |
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> use, I have to |
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> flash a particular bios (and 6.8.1 is currently not working with any |
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> version). |
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> Thanks, |
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> Stuart |
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> |
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> > -----Original Message----- |
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> > From: Paul de Vrieze [mailto:pauldv@g.o] |
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> > Sent: Monday, October 25, 2004 4:39 AM |
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> > To: gentoo-desktop@l.g.o |
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> > Subject: Re: [gentoo-desktop] X freezing? |
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> > |
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> > |
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> > On Monday 25 October 2004 00:56, A. Gabriel W. Daleson wrote: |
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> > > Hm. I've emerged openoffice already, and also given it |
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> > long lists of |
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> > > other packages to merge, both while X doesn't run. It |
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> > doesn't seem to |
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> > > be related to the machine load in the that sense. |
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> > > |
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> > > Also on this note, I'm dual booting the system - Windows seems to |
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> > > have no trouble with it at all, and every hardware check I've run |
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> > > comes out fine. If it's a hardware problem, it's a real |
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> subtle one. |
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> > |
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> > Windows behaviour is normally not very good in detecting |
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> > broken hardware. |
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> > Windows is rather conservative in it's use of instructions |
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> > (it must run |
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> > on the whole range, while a gentoo system doesn't need to). |
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> > Further there |
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> > are normally enough other sources of crashes to make it hard |
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> > to see that |
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> > a crash is hardware related. |
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> > |
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> > Paul |
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> > |
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> > ps. Do note that the X drivers are not entirely bugfree |
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> > either, and can |
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> > and will lock up your screen, keyboard and mouse. Remote access is |
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> > normally still possible. |
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> > |
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> > pps. There is another good source of seemingly random |
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> > crashes, and that |
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> > has to do with race conditions and other thread related issues. |
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> > Programming safely for multiple threads is difficult. |
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> > Especially if those |
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> > threads are executed on more than one processor. |
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> > |
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> > The causes of such behaviour could be anywhere. Given that |
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> > kde is normally |
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> > stable on multiprocessor systems I would certainly not exclude the |
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> > mainboard or graphics card bioses. (Yes, graphic cards have a |
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> > bios too, |
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> > and it can normally be updated) |
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> > |
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> > -- |
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> > Paul de Vrieze |
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> > Gentoo Developer |
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> > Mail: pauldv@g.o |
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> > Homepage: http://www.devrieze.net |
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