Surprised and Disappointed

[Charles Curley]

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On Mon, May 05, 2003 at 11:05:11AM -0600, Chuck Allison wrote:
> Hello pluglist,
>=20
>   I did a custom install of RedHat 8.0 last week and things went very
>   well, I thought. (I've posted some queries about Samba and Sound
>   Cards, issues I expected to have problems with). Last night when
>   trying to use Mozilla I got all kinds of strange graphics garbage
>   and had to reboot (shades of Windows here). This morning I came to
>   my Linux box and saw a frozen screen saver - I had to cold boot! As
>   a Windows guy, this is just deja vu all over again. Isn't Linux
>   supposed to be more stable than Windows? I usually don't have such
>   problems with Windows installations this early in their life cycle!
>   Should I turn off the screen saver (and how is that done)?

another thought: if you have an Intel 845G video card, support in the
version of X on RH 8.0 is flakey at best. Try upgrading to RH
9.0. Upgrading X on RH 8.0 is not easy. I know; I did it for a whole
classroom of machines recently.

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