Fedora Hangs on Laptop

[Dave Cross]

I'm running Fedora 9 on a Dell XPS M1330 laptop. I'm using one of the
earliest F9 kernel (2.6.25-14.fc9.i686.PAE) because I've been unable
to get a wireless connection with any later kernel that I've tried.

But I'm having huge problems with this kernel too. At random times the
machine just freezes completely. The capslock and num-lock buttons
flash on and off but the only way out of it seems to be to turn the
system off and restart. Sometimes it can be an hour or so before the
problems occurs, but more often it's a few minutes. This obviously
makes the system pretty much unusable. I can use the system for as
long as Iike when I boot it into Vista.

Has anyone else seen this behaviour? Or do you have any suggestions on
how I can help to investigate the problem?

Thanks,

Dave...

[Dave Cross]

2008/11/7 Dave Cross :
> I'm running Fedora 9 on a Dell XPS M1330 laptop. I'm using one of the
> earliest F9 kernel (2.6.25-14.fc9.i686.PAE) because I've been unable
> to get a wireless connection with any later kernel that I've tried.
>
> But I'm having huge problems with this kernel too. At random times the
> machine just freezes completely. The capslock and num-lock buttons
> flash on and off but the only way out of it seems to be to turn the
> system off and restart. Sometimes it can be an hour or so before the
> problems occurs, but more often it's a few minutes. This obviously
> makes the system pretty much unusable. I can use the system for as
> long as Iike when I boot it into Vista.
>
> Has anyone else seen this behaviour? Or do you have any suggestions on
> how I can help to investigate the problem?

Last night I tried the Fedora 10 preview on this machine and I'm
pleased to report that not only did the wireless problems go away, but
I was able to use the system for three hours without it hanging.

Fedora 10 looks like a lovely release. I'm really looking forward to
the official version. Many thanks to everyone who was involved.

Dave...

[bruce]

for what it's worth.. and it might not be much!

i have a toshiba satellite, running f9, and had an issue where the system
would freeze/lockup, that i managed to resolve with new/different xorg
drivers.

basically, i changed from radeon, to radeonhd in the xrog.conf, and
downloaded the appropriate driver. might help your issue.. but without
knowing more about your symptoms/setup, can't say for sure.

-----Original Message-----
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[mailto:[e-mail]]On Behalf Of Dave Cross
Sent: Thursday, November 13, 2008 12:08 AM
To: Fedora List
Subject: Re: Fedora Hangs on Laptop

2008/11/7 Dave Cross :
> I'm running Fedora 9 on a Dell XPS M1330 laptop. I'm using one of the
> earliest F9 kernel (2.6.25-14.fc9.i686.PAE) because I've been unable
> to get a wireless connection with any later kernel that I've tried.
>
> But I'm having huge problems with this kernel too. At random times the
> machine just freezes completely. The capslock and num-lock buttons
> flash on and off but the only way out of it seems to be to turn the
> system off and restart. Sometimes it can be an hour or so before the
> problems occurs, but more often it's a few minutes. This obviously
> makes the system pretty much unusable. I can use the system for as
> long as Iike when I boot it into Vista.
>
> Has anyone else seen this behaviour? Or do you have any suggestions on
> how I can help to investigate the problem?

Last night I tried the Fedora 10 preview on this machine and I'm
pleased to report that not only did the wireless problems go away, but
I was able to use the system for three hours without it hanging.

Fedora 10 looks like a lovely release. I'm really looking forward to
the official version. Many thanks to everyone who was involved.

Dave...

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[Rupesh Patayane]

I'm having a similar problem with Fedora 10 on Dell Latitude D630.
Actually, Fedora 10 has been working great for the past two days. But today
after I installed the broadcom-wl package for wireless, whenever I start the
wifi machine just hangs / freezes completely. 
The CapsLock and ScrollLock buttons keep flashing on and off and the only
way out is to  turn the
system off and restart.

Not sure why this is happening, apart from this hiccup fedora 10 seems to be
great.

can somebody help me out?

Thanks,
Rupesh

Dave Cross wrote:
> I'm running Fedora 9 on a Dell XPS M1330 laptop. I'm using one of the
> earliest F9 kernel (2.6.25-14.fc9.i686.PAE) because I've been unable
> to get a wireless connection with any later kernel that I've tried.
>
> But I'm having huge problems with this kernel too. At random times the
> machine just freezes completely. The capslock and num-lock buttons
> flash on and off but the only way out of it seems to be to turn the
> system off and restart. Sometimes it can be an hour or so before the
> problems occurs, but more often it's a few minutes. This obviously
> makes the system pretty much unusable. I can use the system for as
> long as Iike when I boot it into Vista.
>
> Has anyone else seen this behaviour? Or do you have any suggestions on
> how I can help to investigate the problem?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Dave...
>
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[bruce]

tell me.

in your xorg.conf.. what's the video driver you're using??

-----Original Message-----
From: [e-mail]
[mailto:[e-mail]]On Behalf Of Rupesh P
Sent: Monday, December 01, 2008 2:47 AM
To: [e-mail]
Subject: Re: Fedora Hangs on Laptop

I'm having a similar problem with Fedora 10 on Dell Latitude D630.
Actually, Fedora 10 has been working great for the past two days. But today
after I installed the broadcom-wl package for wireless, whenever I start the
wifi machine just hangs / freezes completely.
The CapsLock and ScrollLock buttons keep flashing on and off and the only
way out is to  turn the
system off and restart.

Not sure why this is happening, apart from this hiccup fedora 10 seems to be
great.

can somebody help me out?

Thanks,
Rupesh

Dave Cross wrote:
> I'm running Fedora 9 on a Dell XPS M1330 laptop. I'm using one of the
> earliest F9 kernel (2.6.25-14.fc9.i686.PAE) because I've been unable
> to get a wireless connection with any later kernel that I've tried.
>
> But I'm having huge problems with this kernel too. At random times the
> machine just freezes completely. The capslock and num-lock buttons
> flash on and off but the only way out of it seems to be to turn the
> system off and restart. Sometimes it can be an hour or so before the
> problems occurs, but more often it's a few minutes. This obviously
> makes the system pretty much unusable. I can use the system for as
> long as Iike when I boot it into Vista.
>
> Has anyone else seen this behaviour? Or do you have any suggestions on
> how I can help to investigate the problem?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Dave...
>
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[Jim]

bruce wrote:
> tell me.
>
> in your xorg.conf.. what's the video driver you're using??
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [e-mail]
> [mailto:[e-mail]]On Behalf Of Rupesh P
> Sent: Monday, December 01, 2008 2:47 AM
> To: [e-mail]
> Subject: Re: Fedora Hangs on Laptop
>
> I'm having a similar problem with Fedora 10 on Dell Latitude D630.
> Actually, Fedora 10 has been working great for the past two days. But today
> after I installed the broadcom-wl package for wireless, whenever I start the
> wifi machine just hangs / freezes completely.
> The CapsLock and ScrollLock buttons keep flashing on and off and the only
> way out is to  turn the
> system off and restart.
>
> Not sure why this is happening, apart from this hiccup fedora 10 seems to be
> great.
>
> can somebody help me out?
>
> Thanks,
> Rupesh
>
> Dave Cross wrote:
> > I'm running Fedora 9 on a Dell XPS M1330 laptop. I'm using one of the
> > earliest F9 kernel (2.6.25-14.fc9.i686.PAE) because I've been unable
> > to get a wireless connection with any later kernel that I've tried.
> >
> > But I'm having huge problems with this kernel too. At random times the
> > machine just freezes completely. The capslock and num-lock buttons
> > flash on and off but the only way out of it seems to be to turn the
> > system off and restart. Sometimes it can be an hour or so before the
> > problems occurs, but more often it's a few minutes. This obviously
> > makes the system pretty much unusable. I can use the system for as
> > long as Iike when I boot it into Vista.
> >
> > Has anyone else seen this behaviour? Or do you have any suggestions on
> > how I can help to investigate the problem?
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > Dave...
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Your also going to run into another problem if your running FC10, 
Firefox can't find some websites, fix is below. I use AT&T  
sbcglobal.net and have same problem.

On Mon, 2008-12-01 at 09:11 -0800, gary artim wrote:
> > seems there is a ipv6 slowdown with comcast's dns servers. if you use
> > firefox
> > you can stop ipv6 lookups by opening a tab in firefox and typing:
> >
> > about:config
> >
> > type:
> > network.dns.disableIPv6;false
> > set it to true and your dns lookups will take off.

[Rupesh Patayane]

Fedora 10 did not have xorg.conf by defualt. I have generated it using the
system-config-display.
It looks like this:

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
# Xorg configuration created by system-config-display

Section "ServerLayout"
        Identifier     "single head configuration"
        Screen      0  "Screen0" 0 0
        InputDevice    "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
# keyboard added by rhpxl
        Identifier  "Keyboard0"
        Driver      "kbd"
        Option      "XkbModel" "pc105+inet"
        Option      "XkbLayout" "us"
EndSection

Section "Device"
        Identifier  "Videocard0"
        Driver      "intel"
EndSection

Section "Screen"
        Identifier "Screen0"
        Device     "Videocard0"
        DefaultDepth     24
        SubSection "Display"
                Viewport   0 0
                Depth     24
        EndSubSection
EndSection

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Rupesh Patayane
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On Tue, Dec 2, 2008 at 3:38 AM, bruce  wrote:
> tell me.
>
> in your xorg.conf.. what's the video driver you're using??
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [e-mail]
> [mailto:[e-mail]]On Behalf Of Rupesh P
> Sent: Monday, December 01, 2008 2:47 AM
> To: [e-mail]
> Subject: Re: Fedora Hangs on Laptop
>
> I'm having a similar problem with Fedora 10 on Dell Latitude D630.
> Actually, Fedora 10 has been working great for the past two days. But today
> after I installed the broadcom-wl package for wireless, whenever I start
> the
> wifi machine just hangs / freezes completely.
> The CapsLock and ScrollLock buttons keep flashing on and off and the only
> way out is to  turn the
> system off and restart.
>
> Not sure why this is happening, apart from this hiccup fedora 10 seems to
> be
> great.
>
> can somebody help me out?
>
> Thanks,
> Rupesh
>
> Dave Cross wrote:
> > I'm running Fedora 9 on a Dell XPS M1330 laptop. I'm using one of the
> > earliest F9 kernel (2.6.25-14.fc9.i686.PAE) because I've been unable
> > to get a wireless connection with any later kernel that I've tried.
> >
> > But I'm having huge problems with this kernel too. At random times the
> > machine just freezes completely. The capslock and num-lock buttons
> > flash on and off but the only way out of it seems to be to turn the
> > system off and restart. Sometimes it can be an hour or so before the
> > problems occurs, but more often it's a few minutes. This obviously
> > makes the system pretty much unusable. I can use the system for as
> > long as Iike when I boot it into Vista.
> >
> > Has anyone else seen this behaviour? Or do you have any suggestions on
> > how I can help to investigate the problem?
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > Dave...
> >
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