Well the random X.org crashes seem to have topped after I urpmi’d some updates. I really have to give it to the people at Seer Of Souls, as their repository is top notch and updated quite frequently.

If you didn’t know, seer of souls is an independant site that supplies software for the current version of Mandriva Linux. Most of their software is backported from Cooker (the beta version of Mandriva). Its an excellent way to get up to date software without having to resort to compiling from source.

This is especially useful if you don’t leave it on as one of your primary sources. This is pretty important as urpmi doesn’t make downgrading easy. In fact from what I can tell, it’s damn near impossible. So if you add seer of souls, think before you do a ‘urpmi –auto-select’ and update everything - you could regret it.