From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Jun 18 07:17:01 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5A96416A46C for ; Mon, 18 Jun 2007 07:17:01 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from slvhwke@optusnet.com.au) Received: from mail32.syd.optusnet.com.au (mail32.syd.optusnet.com.au [211.29.132.63]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F274013C447 for ; Mon, 18 Jun 2007 07:17:00 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from slvhwke@optusnet.com.au) Received: from daisy (c210-49-253-163.ipswc1.qld.optusnet.com.au [210.49.253.163]) by mail32.syd.optusnet.com.au (8.13.1/8.13.1) with SMTP id l5I7GoAl003268; Mon, 18 Jun 2007 17:16:57 +1000 Message-ID: <002d01c7b178$a8e65e10$a3fd31d2@daisy> From: "Gemma Fletcher" To: References: <200706152133.27118.slvhwke@optusnet.com.au> <20070618012935.S5906@fledge.watson.org> Date: Mon, 18 Jun 2007 17:16:51 +1000 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2600.0000 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2600.0000 Cc: doug@safeport.com Subject: Re: KDE 3.5 Crashing X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 18 Jun 2007 07:17:01 -0000 >I apologize in advance if this advice is too rudimentary. Rudimentry is good :) I am a BSD noob :D >Sounds more like hardware. You did not say how you tested your memory. If you > did not use Memtest86, get and run that. Also run fsck manually. I used Memtest and I have had already run fsck since my poor hard drive was compaining bitterly of so many cold restarts. There were some errors that were cleaned up - and it seems a bit more stable > If the hardware checks out okay, you can try to isolate what is failing. Turn of > various compoents one at a time. For example turn off the wireles interface and > work normally. If that still fails, set up a dd command or a benchmark program > to run under kde buut without the network. You can set up either of these to run > overnight so you should get a good idea that the test worked or not. If you get > a failure without the network repeat the test using twm (its built into xorg). I pulled out my wifi card (since i wasn't even using the darn thing), the only other thing to pull is my video card (Nividia GForce 6600) - the rest (sound, my ethernet card etc) are all onboard. Now I have being trying to find something comparable to windows where there is a device manager where i can disable or enable hardware. Is there something like that? Or is it console command only? I've been reading through the handbook and the KDE doc but haven't come across much. I'll try a benchmark prog and then try twm if there's a prob. > If all this fails to identify the problem you need at least to get a kernel > dump. The developers handbook has information on this. > > Hope this helps, Help heaps, Thanks :) > DougD Gemma