[PlanetCCRMA] FC5+P.CCRMA: Various Problems with Stability

[Fernando Lopez-Lezcano]

On Mon, 2007-03-12 at 06:53 -0500, Paul Coccoli wrote:
> On 3/11/07, Bill Polhemus <bill at polhemus.cc> wrote:
> > I have mentioned previously that I had some "system freezes" (more
> > precisely, I think they are "GNOME desktop freezes") in my homebrew AMD
> > dual core system.
> >
> > I want to elaborate a little more, in case this helps others, and
> > perhaps to gain more insight into how to proceed.
> >
> > [MUNCH]
>
> I have an FC5 box (old Athlon) without Planet CCRMA installed, and
> it's been freezing up lately too.  Like you said, it's during
> inactivity, when the screensaver is running. 

Hmmm, this could be screensaver related. I've seen hungs with some of
the opengl ones, I normally just run with the "blank screen" option. 

-- Fernando


> I haven't tried to
> troubleshoot it yet (I didn't have any disk issues after restarting
> the box).  I haven't seen it in a couple of days, since I did my last
> yum update.
> 
> This box as a cheap ATI card in it, using the xorg drivers.  What type
> of video/drivers are you using?
> 
> I can't think of anything I've done to it that should make it
> unstable.  I've barely touched it (my wife uses it for internet
> access).