Crash Bang boom! Viewer brings computer to hault.

I've heard a couple other cases of this and want to let the dev's know that I used to run SL fine under FC5 and FC6 but since I've updated to FC8 I can guarantee SL will crash at some point (usually no more than 30 min. into session). Ok, I understand it's "Alpha" software "use at your own risk" But first I'd like to say that I'm not one to complain. I usually read all the complaints across these forums and in the Blog and most of it is for nothing more than the sake of bitchin. I've been using SL for nearly 4 years now. Never before has a single client release given me more problems and that goes for both Windows and Linux releases. I wouldn't be so alarmed if I could at least reboot my computer. Nada; It freezes the whole d@mn thing I can't even "ctrl, alt, backspace" or switch to another screen session. It completely locks my system. Ok on to the spec's Intel Pentium 4 CPU 3.2 on a full size ATX Asus mobo (forget the numbers but it's a newer model), 512mb ram, 256mb Nvidia Geforce FX 5500 gpu, WD Raptor 10,000 rpm SATA drive, running Fedora 8 kernel 2.6.23.14-115.fc8 with the latest Livna packages up to date. I've tried disabling both Xgl and aiglx with no better results. I wish I had an action I could reproduce to say what is happening but it seems truly random. I've checked running processes to see if anything appears to be hogging up cycles and it looks clean. I turned off the package manager so it's not constantly checking the line for updates and that does not help. It freezes so bad that I've tried keeping an open terminal "always on top" so when it froze (cause if one thing is for sure) I'd hopefully be able to have terminal access... Was a good thought anyway. Maybe if some dev reads this you will notice I've let the crash reporter send the reports so you may notice a flood of them from my account. I hope it's something on my end that I can take care of, maybe someone has a suggestion... Please.

Thank you for your time,
Tre

It may be a waste of time, but try editing the secondlife script file, disabling all the bits like OpenGL extensions, and if that is more stable, re-enable the basic extensions and try enabling them one at a time via the "a-z" list.

I hate this kind of problem, but I have it myself right now with SL ONLY, in Windows and Linux, after years of having a rock-steady system.

A brutal method that stabilised SL for me is setting the FSB to 166 instead of 200 - but since ONLY SL flips out, that is an overkill, and I don't use it.

Newly, but mainly with the Windlight release, zooming causes the graphics of SL to disappear and be replaced by a radiant color spread emitting from the lower left corner of the SL screen.

I guess I will be debugging the options for a while

I had similar problems with my OpenSUSE 10.3 i386 (NVIDIA 7300GT) system until a recent X.org update. Most of these kinds of problems are caused by something in the graphics system, and most of my frustrations took the form of spontaneous reboots and a few total system lockups.

My system has been rock-solid ever since the update.

Remember, if you manually installed a factory graphics driver, you will probably need to re-install it when you make kernel and kernel-related changes to your system. Refer to instructions for your distribution.

Adamas