On Tue, Jul 22, 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
Not sure if this is applicable with your hardware, but.. I had a similar problem. In my case, the "fix" was to change from the onboard nic which hwinfo --netcard describes as Model: "nVidia MCP67 Ethernet" Vendor: pci 0x10de "nVidia Corporation" Device: pci 0x054c "MCP67 Ethernet" SubVendor: pci 0x1043 "ASUSTeK Computer Inc." SubDevice: pci 0x82b3 Revision: 0xa2 Driver: "forcedeth" Driver Modules: "forcedeth" To a plain old 3c905C-TX/TX-M [Tornado]. No more random crashes. Go figure. Michael -- Michael Fischer michael@visv.net -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org