[CLUE-Tech] Stops crashing

[Stephen Lehr]

On Mon, 2003-07-21 at 16:23, Jeremiah Stanley wrote:
> > Dissatisfied with peace, I downloaded RH 9.0 and tried the upgrade.  I
> > neither added nor deleted any packages.  The installation putted along
> > for awhile and then locked up.
> 
> What type of video card do you have? I had troubles with my Radeon for a
> while using anything that dealt with DPMS or 3D rendering. Once I turned
> the monitor shutdown (now it just blanks) I stopped having crashes.
> 
**) |   |-->Device "RIVA128"  I don't do anything graphically
challenging.

> The other trick, if you don't do much 3D, is to set the AGP speed to 1
> or 2 instead of the 4 that the cards like to run at. I don't have to do
> this with X 4.3 now, but if it matters I can look at the config for the
> line.
> 
> I have also turned off the APM utilities that RedHat so nicely starts by
> default for you. Check to make sure your ACPI hardware isn't causing any
> messages in your logs.

Most every lock-up occured before my very eyes, so power management
utilities were probably not involved.  What's ACPI?