You may want to do a memtest with your computer<br><br>Boot to linux, and type memtest86� let it run for about 10 or 20 minutes with the ram that you have installed<br><br>Typically anything over 6 errors on a 512 stick will bring mayhem to an OS, <br>
<br>I am using a Failing ram stick on mine, becuase It is a dev machine that I hit with viruses and then reboot, and then the process starts over again.<br><br>Mainly testing all of these exploits that are on webservers running CentOS in a virtual environment.� Its better to know what they do and how they get there <br>
then to simply delete the file and hope for the best.<br><br>But I would seriously look at the memtest option, and possibly even the power supply for your answers.� Chances are the PSU may be spiking or the memory may be bad in some of the upper blocks and X tends to use a bit of that memory.<br>
<br>have you tried getting KDE to run?<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Sep 27, 2009 at 8:42 PM, Buz Davis <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:buzdavis@earthlink.net">buzdavis@earthlink.net</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">First, let me apologize to �Akemi Yagi for my delay in �answering his<br>
last query. �After failing with 4.8 I realized that I had at least one<br>
and possibly two computers capable of handling 5.3 �(one was newly<br>
purchased second-hand and had many unknowns about it. �The other was<br>
well documented but its power was obscured by a thick layer of Windows XP).<br>
<br>
To answer Akemi's last questions, yes, I am sure that the disks were all<br>
4.8. �I checked with md5sum before burning the cds<br>
and am not sure how to check further than that. I never got past using<br>
the first (modified) disk that I downloaded from the url you gave me,<br>
because anaconda failed to find a file - having to do with GNOME,<br>
so the process aborted. �Again I apologize for delaying my response, but<br>
I have been occupied again with 5.3, but on the newer computers.<br>
<br>
5.3 installed easily and correctly on the first machine (celeron,<br>
1.2Ghz, 512M ram, 80G disk). �With the second machine I am getting<br>
consistent failure to load X, despite<br>
many attempts that appeared to be good installs.<br>
<br>
For the last attempt I had about 160G of disk available,<br>
over 800M of ran, and (as reported by the BIOS, a pentium 3 processor.<br>
Unfortunately a remaining big unknown for that system is the Mhz rating<br>
for the processor. �When I got it, with a broken XP system on it, it was<br>
set at 550Mhz. �The BIOS allows three choices: 366, 500, and 7xx (I<br>
don't remember the last value precisely, but the system wont boot at<br>
all, so it's moot). �I have mainly messed with the 550 setting, but have<br>
occasionally tried at 360. �It doesn't seem to make a difference.<br>
<br>
On that system the output of uname -a gives<br>
2.6.18-128.3l5 for the kernel, and "i686 i686 i386" at the end. Free<br>
shows 905240 total and 231688 used.<br>
<br>
Console mouse services work. �When I attempt to load X I get the<br>
hollow-x cursor, then the black screen with the nautilus window and then<br>
white bars at top and bottom, along with an arrow cursor. �The white<br>
bars get populated with some icons<br>
and then comes the blue screen with the doily-like design, but at that<br>
point the system appears to be hung. �The computer, home, and trash<br>
icons do not appear on the desktop, nor does a mouse-pointer, and<br>
wiggling the mouse does nothing.<br>
<br>
I have compared the /var/log/Xorg.0.log files from the two machines (one<br>
that works, one that doesn't), and they both end in the same place:<br>
<br>
<snip><br>
(--) <default pointer>: PnP-detected protocol: "ExplorerPS/2"<br>
(II) <default pointer>: ps2EnableDataReporting: succeeded<br>
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<br>
I would appreciate any help in getting X to work on this second computer<br>
<br>
Thanks,<br>
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Buz Davis<br>
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