[opensuse] Dell Inspiron 6400 + OpenSUSE 10.2 experience?
Anybody with Dell Inspiron 6400 + OpenSUSE 10.2 experience. My default installation is causing lots of trouble. Frequent boot time hang (Primarily at "activating device mapper ...") and high frequency FireFox crashes (that's where I spend most of my time, so really "high frequency", definitely not usual for a stable release). Mostly FireFox stops responding and I need to kill it. Any comment? (Dell Inspiron 6400 - - Intel 2x1.66Ghz + Intel 945GM Display) -- Mohammad Bhuyan Software Engineer Mobile: +61 4 13324850 mahafuz@gmail.com -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
On Wed, 2007-05-16 at 14:03 +1000, Mohammad Bhuyan wrote:
Anybody with Dell Inspiron 6400 + OpenSUSE 10.2 experience.
My default installation is causing lots of trouble. Frequent boot time hang (Primarily at "activating device mapper ...") and high frequency FireFox crashes (that's where I spend most of my time, so really "high frequency", definitely not usual for a stable release). Mostly FireFox stops responding and I need to kill it.
Any comment?
(Dell Inspiron 6400 - - Intel 2x1.66Ghz + Intel 945GM Display)
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Mohammad Bhuyan wrote:
Anybody with Dell Inspiron 6400 + OpenSUSE 10.2 experience.
My default installation is causing lots of trouble. Frequent boot time hang (Primarily at "activating device mapper ...") and high frequency FireFox crashes (that's where I spend most of my time, so really "high frequency", definitely not usual for a stable release). Mostly FireFox stops responding and I need to kill it.
How're your temperatures? I don't have a Dell Inspiron, but I do have a Toshiba laptop in which I increased the RAM from the original 512 MB to 2 GB. I don't know if it's because of the increased memory or because it's a couple of years old and probably dusty inside, but now it often overheats. The symptom in Linux is that everything becomes unresponsive except the mouse. However, I'm pretty sure what the problem is, because when the machine is booted to Windows XP and this happens, it simply shuts down. It appears to be two different responses to the same situation, and the Linux response seems very much like what you're describing. Jerry in Bothell, WA -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
On Wednesday 16 May 2007 09:01, Jerry Houston wrote:
Mohammad Bhuyan wrote:
Anybody with Dell Inspiron 6400 + OpenSUSE 10.2 experience.
My default installation is causing lots of trouble. Frequent boot time hang (Primarily at "activating device mapper ...") and high frequency FireFox crashes (that's where I spend most of my time, so really "high frequency", definitely not usual for a stable release). Mostly FireFox stops responding and I need to kill it.
How're your temperatures? I don't have a Dell Inspiron, but I do have a Toshiba laptop in which I increased the RAM from the original 512 MB to 2 GB. I don't know if it's because of the increased memory or because it's a couple of years old and probably dusty inside, but now it often overheats.
The symptom in Linux is that everything becomes unresponsive except the mouse. However, I'm pretty sure what the problem is, because when the machine is booted to Windows XP and this happens, it simply shuts down.
It appears to be two different responses to the same situation, and the Linux response seems very much like what you're describing.
Jerry in Bothell, WA
You may be interested in the fact that the New York State Attorney General, Andrew Cuomo, has instituted suit against Dell for not fulfilling its obligations as to customer service, bait and switch schemes, and miscellaneous other crimes, after a tremendous group of customers complained, to Dell, and then to the AG, after having received no relief from Dell. This was on the news today, and is probably available on national news wires. --doug -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
Le Mercredi 16 Mai 2007 06:03, Mohammad Bhuyan a écrit :
Anybody with Dell Inspiron 6400 + OpenSUSE 10.2 experience.
My default installation is causing lots of trouble. Frequent boot time hang (Primarily at "activating device mapper ...") and high frequency FireFox crashes (that's where I spend most of my time, so really "high frequency", definitely not usual for a stable release). Mostly FireFox stops responding and I need to kill it.
Any comment?
(Dell Inspiron 6400 - - Intel 2x1.66Ghz + Intel 945GM Display)
-- Mohammad Bhuyan Software Engineer Mobile: +61 4 13324850 mahafuz@gmail.com
Hi, I do have a Dell Inspiron 6400 (core 2 duo 1.83 Ghz, Nvidia 7300 Go) which works normally. No boot hangs. Stable. However, since the last kernel update, I do have problem with the wireless card. Until the last kernel update (2.6.18.0.3 i believe) the card was properly detected and knetwork manager prompt me at every boot up for the wap key of my wireless network (which is handle through kwallet). Oddly, after the kernel update, the card is not recognize onto YaST -> network -> network adpater. And the wireless card is not active. If I manualy load the driver (modprobe ipw3945) and restart the network (rcnetwork retstart), it is then detected (but does not appear in the available adapter list under YaST), knetwork manager starts and network is available. Cheers, Matthias -- __________________________________________________________ Matthias Titeux, PhD Département de génétique des maladies cutanées et allergiques dans des modèles animaux et chez l'homme. INSERM U563 - CPTP Pavillon Lefebvre, 5ème étage CHU Purpan BP3028 31024 Toulouse cedex 03 __________________________________________________________ -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
On Wed, 2007-05-16 at 17:32 +0200, Matthias Titeux wrote:
Le Mercredi 16 Mai 2007 06:03, Mohammad Bhuyan a écrit :
Anybody with Dell Inspiron 6400 + OpenSUSE 10.2 experience.
My default installation is causing lots of trouble. Frequent boot time hang (Primarily at "activating device mapper ...") and high frequency FireFox crashes (that's where I spend most of my time, so really "high frequency", definitely not usual for a stable release). Mostly FireFox stops responding and I need to kill it.
Any comment?
(Dell Inspiron 6400 - - Intel 2x1.66Ghz + Intel 945GM Display)
-- Mohammad Bhuyan Software Engineer Mobile: +61 4 13324850 mahafuz@gmail.com
Hi, I do have a Dell Inspiron 6400 (core 2 duo 1.83 Ghz, Nvidia 7300 Go) which works normally. No boot hangs. Stable. However, since the last kernel update, I do have problem with the wireless card. Until the last kernel update (2.6.18.0.3 i believe) the card was properly detected and knetwork manager prompt me at every boot up for the wap key of my wireless network (which is handle through kwallet). Oddly, after the kernel update, the card is not recognize onto YaST -> network -> network adpater. And the wireless card is not active. If I manualy load the driver (modprobe ipw3945) and restart the network (rcnetwork retstart), it is then detected (but does not appear in the available adapter list under YaST), knetwork manager starts and network is available.
the ipw3945 driver is a mess imho. Lockup at boot if killswitch is on, sometimes it starts-up fine after hibernate other times I have to reload the driver and network to get it to connect - I have tried compiling the latest version - but still issues. When it works it also drops the wireless link and reconnects if I push it to hard - like watching an AVI etc. (this is on m Lat D820) E-Mail disclaimer: http://www.sunspace.co.za/emaildisclaimer.htm -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
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