Re: [opensuse] Bye Bye Vista - Hello issue with SUSE...
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On Thu, May 24, 2007 12:10 am, Verner Kjærsgaard wrote:
...I left it in the locked state for a few hours. Went off to a meeting, and it has been working perfectly. Could it have been "The Return of Beagle"? I'd forgotten about the dog, and I have it running. I currently have KDE System guard running to see if anything is stealing my processes, but so far, it has worked flawlessly for the past hour.
Having read the entire thread, I got this stomach gut feeling...it's your X driver. I've seen stuff like this when the display hardware doesn't really like the X driver. Or the other way round.
Try digging in that direction.
Update: How do I "dig" in this direction? I just noticed it locking up again last night. I restarted my session in Enlightenmetn, and it locked within about two minutes. It "could" be hardware, as someone else mentioned, but Vista wasn't locking like this. I have been running memtest since last night, with no ill results. Ideas? When I type tail /var/log/messages I don't see anything strange. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
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On Thursday May 24 2007 8:04:42 am Kai Ponte wrote:
On Thu, May 24, 2007 12:10 am, Verner Kjærsgaard wrote:
...I left it in the locked state for a few hours. Went off to a meeting, and it has been working perfectly. Could it have been "The Return of Beagle"? I'd forgotten about the dog, and I have it running. I currently have KDE System guard running to see if anything is stealing my processes, but so far, it has worked flawlessly for the past hour.
Having read the entire thread, I got this stomach gut feeling...it's your X driver. I've seen stuff like this when the display hardware doesn't really like the X driver. Or the other way round.
Try digging in that direction.
Update: How do I "dig" in this direction? I just noticed it locking up again last night. I restarted my session in Enlightenmetn, and it locked within about two minutes.
It "could" be hardware, as someone else mentioned, but Vista wasn't locking like this. I have been running memtest since last night, with no ill results.
Ideas?
When I type tail /var/log/messages I don't see anything strange.
Dig in the direction of the video drivers as suggested. Use the default nv, radeon, whichever video driver and see if stability returns. If its really new hardware, make sure you have all the BIOS and firmware updates that are available installed and keep looking for updates. Solid lockups where SSH gets no response and /var/log/messages has no clues are most often video related. -- Stan -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
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Kai Ponte wrote:
On Thu, May 24, 2007 12:10 am, Verner Kjærsgaard wrote:
...I left it in the locked state for a few hours. Went off to a meeting, and it has been working perfectly. Could it have been "The Return of Beagle"? I'd forgotten about the dog, and I have it running. I currently have KDE System guard running to see if anything is stealing my processes, but so far, it has worked flawlessly for the past hour.
Having read the entire thread, I got this stomach gut feeling...it's your X driver. I've seen stuff like this when the display hardware doesn't really like the X driver. Or the other way round.
Try digging in that direction.
Update: How do I "dig" in this direction? I just noticed it locking up again last night. I restarted my session in Enlightenmetn, and it locked within about two minutes.
It "could" be hardware, as someone else mentioned, but Vista wasn't locking like this. I have been running memtest since last night, with no ill results.
Ideas?
When I type tail /var/log/messages I don't see anything strange.
Well if it turns out to be non-X related, i.e. if your hardware freezes in runlevel three, as well, I would try to do it the old fashioned way with disabling certain kernel parameters like "noacpi" and similar. Ex. http://www.faqs.org/docs/Linux-HOWTO/BootPrompt-HOWTO.html Also you might google for other users experiences with Linux on your hardware. regards Eberhard, who concludes (once again, just for me and myself!) that brand new hardware is not the ideal place for Linux, especially not if the hardware in question is a notebook. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
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