On Thursday 28 April 2005 11:28, R Kimber wrote:
On Thu, 28 Apr 2005 08:20:31 -0400
Valur Olafsson
wrote: Spoke too soon, the computer froze not 10 minutes after I emailed the list. Still have the same problem. Any other suggestions to debug the problem?
I have experienced something similar, always while using a browser. This suggests it might be related to the network connection, but it might well be something else. All I can say is that I've been experimenting with a fully 64-bit distribution (as opposed to the mixed 64 and 32-bit that I assume most people have) and I have not experienced the problem at all. On the other hand, the stability might be due to some other difference between the 64-bit distribution (Ubuntu) and Suse. I realise this isn't really very helpful, but it may give you something to think about.
- Richard
Thanks for your reply. I've had these lockups even while I'm not using a browser. In fact, yesterday I connected to the internet, then needed to step away from the computer for a bit. When I came back, the computer had locked up and I needed to do a hard reboot. Frankly, I'm not certain if this only a problem due to me connection to the internet with a wireless USB adapter, i.e., driver related, or if this a general problem with the network in SUSE 9.3. But, until this has been resolved, I cannot upgrade my laptop to 9.3, simply because I actually need to do work there. This is less of an issue on my desktop, but it's still forcing me to use Windows XP instead, which I don't like. It's a shame that this problem is in 9.3, since everything else about 9.3 is pretty darn sweet. These hard reboots that I need to do constantly are really starting to bug me, and frankly my patience is starting to wear thin. I would really hate it if I needed to move to a different linux distribution, since I have been a SUSE user since the 7.x versions. Anyway, enough of this doom and gloom. I'm hoping that the next kernel upgrade will magically fix this. Here's hoping. - Valur
-- Richard Kimber British General Election 2005 http://www.psr.keele.ac.uk/area/uk/ge05.htm