[Discuss] kernel panic

[Peter Scott]

At 06:01 PM 2/24/2009, pwillis wrote:
>Is the monitor a smart monitor? Does the video card driver handle
>smart monitors properly? Do you have more than a default
>video driver installed? Is it a USB monitor?

Not USB.  I don't know what a smart monitor is - not having any luck 
with google there - but it's 9 years old - Sony 19" CRT.  I doubt it's smart.

>ie: the video card driver detects a smart monitor. You unplug
>the serial stream from the monitor (or turn it off).
>The video kernel driver then chokes because it's trying to read a
>stream that no longer exists and without a proper timeout
>takes too many ticks...kernel panic.

Makes sense... and the machine is still up this morning.

Video card driver is the default for FC 9.
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