Yesterday I got a new hard drive for my main laptop. I took out the drive with Vista and installed the new one. I proceeded to install 10.3 on the machine. I've done all updates and added Nvidia repository to YaST. (It has a Quadro FX 1500M card.) I am now getting frequent lockups. The system will simply lock with a double-arrow cursor and my only recourse is power off. I looked up this issue and found one response to me earlier that I should get rid of acpi. This I can't seem to do. I did remove kpowersave. (I'm running in KDE.) I saw this batch of emails from November (http://lists4.opensuse.org/opensuse/2007-05/msg02461.html) discussing the issue. In my case, there's no disk activity when this happens. I am able to ssh into the system when locked up and do an /sbin/halt while logged in as root. ideas? I'm sure this is something easy. Keep in mind 10.2 worked for six months on the same machine without these issues. (I'm not against going back to 10.2 if there's no other solution.) -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
PerfectReign wrote:
I am now getting frequent lockups. The system will simply lock with a double-arrow cursor and my only recourse is power off.
and yet:
I am able to ssh into the system when locked up and do an /sbin/halt while logged in as root.
hmm, so it's *not* locked up, it's just that the keyboard/display are non-responsive. I have a Toshiba Tecra M2 which wouldn't wake up once the display went to sleep - I discovered that by closing the lid and opening it again, the laptop would come back to life. Dunno if it applies to your situation. Joe -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
On Thursday 07 February 2008 10:40:28 am Sloan wrote:
PerfectReign wrote:
I am now getting frequent lockups. The system will simply lock with a double-arrow cursor and my only recourse is power off.
and yet:
I am able to ssh into the system when locked up and do an /sbin/halt while logged in as root.
hmm, so it's *not* locked up, it's just that the keyboard/display are non-responsive.
I have a Toshiba Tecra M2 which wouldn't wake up once the display went to sleep - I discovered that by closing the lid and opening it again, the laptop would come back to life. Dunno if it applies to your situation.
Well, it isn't - I guess - "locked up". I can move the mouse, I just can't click or use the keyboard. In fact, I'm on the system now typing in KMail, having used VNC to remote into the machine. (It is locked on the screen.) Closing and opening the laptop lid seems to do little other than "shrink" the screen so that it is narrow now. I'm going to see what I can do in this thread: http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=58498 I need to reboot to get the fresh dmesg output. Thanks! -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
On Thursday 07 February 2008 1:14 pm Kai Ponte wrote:
Well, it isn't - I guess - "locked up". I can move the mouse, I just can't click or use the keyboard. I
Had a similar problem on two Dell Laptops, Turning off acpi solved the problem. At the start screen type acpi=off. Or at /boot/grub/menu.lst insert the same on the kernel line. Richard -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
On Thursday 07 February 2008 06:17:27 pm Richard Atcheson wrote:
On Thursday 07 February 2008 1:14 pm Kai Ponte wrote:
Well, it isn't - I guess - "locked up". I can move the mouse, I just can't click or use the keyboard. I
Had a similar problem on two Dell Laptops, Turning off acpi solved the problem. At the start screen type acpi=off. Or at /boot/grub/menu.lst insert the same on the kernel line.
I seem to have solved it. I did replace the driver in yast with a homebrew one downloaded from nvidia. No lockups since about 3:00. Crossing fingers. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
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