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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 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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> -----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 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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> 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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