Re: [MLUG] suse 9.1 sleep of death

[Gabriel Peterson <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

No, and I'm using an old Voodoo3 that the system spewed up all sorts of
dire warnings about and then proceeded to work perfectly. The idea of
going 0.1th of a step back might not be a bad one though...

Oddly enough this is a system that Mandrake 10.0 totally refused to
install on..freaky.

GP


On Thu, 7 Oct 2004, Dave McBride wrote:

> No help, sorry, but a question: did you have any X-related installation
> problems?  I tried installing SuSE 9.1 and it wouldn't even recognize my
> video.  Had to do a text-based install and manually config X.  It still
> wasn't really right and I gave up.  Not worth the aggravation.  SuSE 9, which
> I'm on now, has been completely trouble-free.
> 	Dave
>
> On Thursday 07 October 2004 9:55 am, Gabriel Peterson wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >      I have a box running suse 9.1 that started going to sleep and not
> > waking up.  The problem became increasingly bad until it was happening any
> > time the machine was left unattended for more than 5 minutes.  The
> > progressive nature of the problem suggested to me that it might be an
> > overflow problem or "leak" (I dimly remember such a thing from the 4 weeks
> > I tried to survive CECS 203 before deciding I'd be having more fun hitting
> > myself in the head with a 2X4 and learning on my own), so I did a
> > reinstall, with no love.  Then I poked about on line and there were some
> > suggestions to reset the CMOS.
> > This I did, and the problem appears to be solved.  I am trying to figure
> > out why the OS would be affecting the CMOS, and how to get solve the
> > problem without having to nuke the system.
> >
> > Any thoughts?
> >
> > Cheers
> >
> > Gabe
> >
> >
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