X crashing

[Edward]

mark wrote:
> Ok, I'm running "Fedora legacy" (RH 9 updates) on my wife's computer, a 
> 450MHz K6 w/ SIS graphics card.
> 
> X just crashes every so often. No reason, SIGHUP is all I see, nothing 
> meaningful in /var/log/messages, nor in /var/log/XFree86.0.log, not in 
> ~/.xerrors (where I have it set up to pipe errors, no cores (sudo find / 
> -name \*core\*), NOTHING. I just upgraded X, turned off screensaves. She 
> was just sitting there doing email.
> 
> Plenty of space in /, /home, and /var. The only ownership complaint I 
> see is that her account owns /tmp/.ICE-unix instead of root.
> 
>   Linux, 2.4.20-30.9 (Fedora Legacy)
>   XFree86 4.3.0.2.90.60 (Fedora Legacy)
>   mailtool: kmail (original RH 9)
>   WM kde, 3.1.12 (original RH 9)
> 
> It was doing the same on X 4.3.0.0.90.55.
> 
> Clues?
> 
> Note: I'm not planning on going to a 2.6 kernel - these are 
> single-processor machines, and I do *NOT* want anything near bleeding 
> edge, anyway: stability and speed on the existing hardware is paramount.
> 
>     mark

Have you tried another video card if you have one lying around?

Regards,
Ed.