Re: problem with 7.1 (2.4.3 & 2.4.2 kernels)

[ABrady <kcsmart kc rr com>]

On Tue, 28 Aug 2001 21:59:53 -0700 (PDT) Gordon Messmer
<yinyang eburg com> imparted to us:

Are these machines runing X most or all of the time? Do you run
xscreensaver on them?

I've had a few issues with some of the screensavers that I've had to
turn off. That's why I ask.

> On 28 Aug 2001, Craig Longman wrote:
> 
> > ever since i upgraded my machine to redhat-7.1, i've been enjoying
> the
> > kind of stability that drove me away from windows.  i've tried
> > everything i can think of to make things better, but to no avail.
> 
> Yep.  I agree.  I've been very unhappy with kernel 2.4.  My machines
> usually just grind a little and stop.  Suddenly.  No oops, no syslog
> indications of problems.  The only thing they have in common is the
> Matrox
> G400 video card.  I've seen it happen with 2.4.2 - 2.4.7 on the very
> latest Roswell.
> 
> I'd file a bug report, but what could I say?  "kernel 2.4 sorta sucks"
> isn't a very helpful bug report.  Nothing really seems to cause the
> lockups.
> 
> On my primary workstation, where I store all my data (mp3, cvs for all
> the
> projects I've got, email), I've gone back to 2.2.19.  I patched Red
> Hat's
> last package (the errata for 7.0) with LVM support and installed it
> the
> other day.  On my laptop and "work" workstation, I'm going to continue
> to
> use 2.4 and see when if it gets better.
> 
> My suggestion?  If you have trouble, just install the 2.2.19 package
> from
> 7.0's errata and set the bootloader up to run it.

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