Fedora 6 strange hangs

[Andy Green]

Jim Cox wrote:

>  > If it is anything like the Firefox problem on my wife's machine, it is
>  > not hardware or power.  The X session and everything else is solid for
>  > days on end.  Just Firefox terminates unexpectedly, sometimes when the
>  > machine is not in use.  Sometimes after 30 minutes sometimes after many
>  > hours.

> I've had the same experience as Andy, variations on losing the display, 
> having
> it lock-up, etc., most frequently when the box was under heavy I/O load 
> ( e.g. using
> Azureus for bittorrent transfers).

That would actually be the opposite experience, I meant 'solid' in terms 
of being dependable, not as in locked up solid :-)  Although she runs 
several other apps on her desktop (OO Writer and Konqueror usually) all 
day none are dying as Firefox is and the X session and everything else 
(X, KDE, other apps) is fine before and after Firefox terminating and 
disappearing.

(This is on the open source radeon driver on "VGA compatible controller: 
ATI Technologies Inc RS482 [Radeon Xpress 200M]" BTW)

-Andy