by Dear news group,
I'm a total newcomer to Linux, and I've just installed Red Hat 5.1 on a
separate partition on my PC (~ 1 Gb). The installation seems to have worked
ok as far as I can see. After having started the X-manager (installed with
XFree86), everything looks allright, and I can start any application I want.
Then usually after 10-15 minutes the screen usually either (1) goes blank or
(2) produces vertical stripes, and neither mouse nor keyboard works. This
happens either when using commands in the Xterm window, or any other
arbitrary application, such as Emacs or Xman. The problem occurrs regardless
of choice of window manager.
I use the following hardware config.
graphics card: Cirrus logic 5434 PCI, 2 Mb.
screen: Eizo 562-T
memory: 64 mb Sdram
I use the following mount points:
/swap 100 Mb
/boot 31 Mb
/usr 750 Mb
/ (root) 51 Mb
/var 76 Mb
Also, I'm using dual boot with windows95 on a Fat32 partition (works fine).
It really would be a shame if I would have to throw out Linux for what might
a stupid glitch. I would greatly appreciate any hints on the cause of the
problem.
Thanks,
S?ren Molander
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