In article <37D4A112.DAD80C83@earthlink.net>,
James T. Nelson <jimtnelson@earthlink.net> wrote:
>I am running 1.4 on a Pentium 133 with 16 Meg RAM and 4G SCSI disk, and the
>system hangs when running X.  This occurs under fvwm2, twm, and kde.  Hanging
>usually occurs after the window manager is up and running and I run something
>like emacs in an xterm.  Other things cause it to hang as well, such as
>opening up the preferences window in kde.  The system hangs at various points,
>not repeatable, though appear to be related to opening a new window.  However,
>it hangs in every X session, unless I exit before doing any significant stuff.
> The only way out is to reboot.

upgrade to 1.4.1... There were some serious problems with the rnd device in
1.4 that caused hangs (or compile a kernel without rnd).

christos