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070306 Mick wrote: |
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> On Tuesday 06 March 2007 21:22, Philip Webb wrote: |
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>> During the past few months, I've been bit by sudden total freezes |
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>> while using Epiphany & Konqueror to browse Internet sites. |
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>> The only way out is to hit the reset button: eg Ctl-Alt-F2 doesn't work. |
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> The only time I had suffered similar symptoms (but different applications) |
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> was when I had a bad memory problem. Memtest86 did not show anything |
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> and it was only through trial and error that I found the faulty module. |
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I emerged Memtest86 & ran it -- it takes 1 hr for my 1 GB memory -- , |
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but I can't find anything to explain the output. It found 2 errors : |
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... 0000c6e37c0 198.1MB ... |
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... 0000d6e37a0 214.1MB ... |
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I realise that these lines refer to hex locations, but I don't understand |
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the reference to 'MB' (perhaps they're the same info in a different form). |
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I have a note that : |
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To tell kernel not to use bad patch of memory, append via Lilo : |
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'badram=<m>,<n>', where m n are obtained via 'memtest'. |
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However, the above lines don't give pairs of addresses, only 1 each. |
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Yes, I did look at the official site & the installed README. |
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Does anyone have further advice ? |
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Meanwhile, I plan to compile Kernel 2.6.20-gentoo , |
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following the other piece of advice received. |
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I still suspect an obscure bug in Xorg-x11 . |
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Thanks for both suggestions. |
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