Subj : Re: ridiculous unstability with fedora 3......help me please !
To   : comp.os.linux
From : Shadow_7
Date : Mon Feb 28 2005 04:51 pm

> [0] Of course, he might say "Oh, you can't use that mobo and disk
> together under Linux!" and you'll have to swap in some different
> hardware.  So it goes.

Well, the expert would go those don't play well together.  The only way to
use them successfully (at least to a limited extent) is to do blah blah
blah.

Or if they're like me, it'll be something like I'll trade this lesser
thing for that and get it working for you as well.  It's amazing how many
people will just give you their old systems if you get their new ones
prettied up.  Not that I need anymore 486 door stops.

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But as for the issue at hand, it sounds like you have a misconfigured X
environment.  As it's about the only thing I've found to crash the system
consistently.  Besides bad win-modem drivers/configurations.  You might
try running the servitude on only the cli and if that fixes your stability
issues you at least know where to start looking. Second in line would be
ACPI. Followed by anything VIA.

Fedora for a server environment just seems odd to me.  As it's in theory
geared towards the desktop user.  And lacks many of the server extras of
the full fledged RHEL package.  It's also a test bed of sorts so it's
bound to be quirky by default.

Also if you happen to be stricken with via.  You might try a few things.
Upgrading the bios to the latest version.  note: may not be easy to come
by or even the official recommended upgrade for your system.

Some parts don't play well together. Realtek 8139, Alsa for via82xx, and
USB on via do not seem to play well together.  At least for some things
like usb printers and usb storage devices. You might find yourself better
off unconfiguring and rmmod'ing the modules for some of those while you do
stuff with only one of those to ensure useability/stability.  There's also
some kernel parms that might help.  acpi=on apm=off pci=noacpi

HTH,
Shadow_7

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