Redhat 8/9 & hardware troubles

[Ian Stephen]

On Sat, 2003-09-20 at 06:43, Net Llama! wrote:

> Could be a failing CPU too.  If you've got a spare component on hand (PSU, 
> CPU, cables, etc) i'd swap them in 1 at a time to see if it makes a 
> difference.

Easiest spare on hand was Mandrake 9.1.  Have installed that to see if
same trouble repeats.  Expect it will since it persisted thru a new
install of RH 9.  Will have to rob what parts I can from an old box and
try like you say.

On a positive note, Mandrake got both my monitors working on first
boot!  Had to tweak a bit, but Red Hat never had anything in
XF86Config-4 for the second card/monitor on first boot.


>   Have you checked the messages log for any errors?

Well... no, other than when X would fail and it would show the relevant
errors for the failure at hand.  Was always modules from XFree86
missing.  Sometimes just one, sometimes a bunch of them.  Then rpm quit
working...

I'll go tattoo 'messages log' on my forehead.

Thanks,
IanS