From: joy Subject: frequent kernel freezes Date: Thu, 22 Jan 2004 09:41:25 +0530 Sender: linux-newbie-owner@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: <400F4D6D.4070006@sancharnet.in> Reply-To: gracecott@sancharnet.in Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT Return-path: List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; format="flowed"; charset="us-ascii" To: mailing list Hello, I recently got X working thanks to you guys , but when I run X, everytime w/o fail I get a message - Sound server fatal error: cpu overload, aborting. I run on Alsa 1.0.1rc2 and have an athlon 2400+ with an nforce mobo and a geforce vga card. from the time I changed to the 2.6 kernel, My comp hangs every other time I boot. Sometimes it hangs DURING BOOTING :-( I wanted to to know the state of the computer when it hangs so that I could feed you guys that info (obviously ;-). I checked in /var/log/messages, but as soon as I startx, the log reads unable to load some charset ( which I assume is not fatal) and followed by garbage until the next bootup message starts( I hope Iam getting thru).I run reiserfs ver 3.6 .is there any option to read the reiser journal or a core dump or anything of that sort to obtain the state of my machine after it hangs? Also if I enable Sysrq in my kernel, will I be able to get the kernel out of a hanging state? (the doc staes that it makes the "kernel sit up and listen" or somthing of that sort.... Thanks a lot in advance, Joy > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > A life without purpose is like a bird that never learnt to fly....... > I am the bird that regularly flies Lufthansa - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-newbie" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.linux-learn.org/faqs