Problems after installation with frequent locks
James Wilkinson
fedora at aprilcottage.co.uk
Thu Feb 4 22:28:18 UTC 2010
Antonio M wrote:
> I am helping a friend of mine to set up his machine with Fedora 12
> 1) we installed by DVD and it was o.k
> 2) after rebooting we set up the user
> 3) we started to upgrade with latest updates (but at the moment we
> have not yet upgraded kernel) with Package kit
> 4) we are experiencing system locks very often
> 5) we are using an AMD system with 2 Gb of Ram and an ATI graphic card
>
> if after kernel updating shall experience such locks, what shall I try??
>
> The computer is working great with Windows, so we discarded any
> hardware problems.
Try:
· using it in text mode;
. using the nomodeset kernel parameter;
· using vesa, radeonhd and radeon drivers;
· using “nodri” in your xorg.conf file;
· trying various graphical screensavers, since they exercise the video
drivers the most.
It’s still possible that it could be hardware problems: Linux
(obviously) puts different things in different memory addresses, and
Windows might well put something in a faulty memory location that
doesn’t lead to noticeable problems. So a memtest86 might be in order,
too.
James.
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