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[Bogdan Cristea <cristeab@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Tuesday 22 July 2008 13:13:33 Kevin Bader wrote:
> Hi!
>
> Two weeks ago I installed Suse 11 on my laptop. Everything worked fine
> at the beginning, but now it crashes frequently. I've no clue where to
> look at to find the problem, so I really need some guidance on that.
> Here's some information:
>
> - crashes occur without a specific event, sometimes after half an hour
> uptime, sometimes right after the logon
> - when it crashes keyboard and mouse doesn't work anymore; the display
> is either black or frozen
> - keyboard LEDs do _not_ blink, so I assume it's not a kernel panic
> - when it crashes, the cpu cooler goes full speed
> - I didn't mess around with the daemon settings, everything is suse default
> - KDE session management is disabled
> - I can't reproduce the error manually
> - the system runs KDE 3.5, default kernel, everything is updated, all
> patches installed
>
> I can deliver more information if needed, of course. I'd really
> appreciate your help.
>
> kevin

I have had a similar behavior with openSuSe 10.2. Disappeared after the kernel 
was recompiled for my specific processor (Athlon64). Newer versions of Linux 
kernel worked with no problem.


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Bogdan Cristea
software engineer
Sytron Technologies Overseas
www.sytron.ro
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