This beast has a radeon card in it and I
have the non free driver installed. The interesting thing is that
I didn't have the locking up problem when I ran xp on it. The
other machine I have has an nvidia 8400GS in it. I'm told there
was a fault with that series that caused them to lock up at
random. It ran just fine under Kubuntu 8.4 but when I tried to
upgrade to anything newer than that, It locked up.
The newer beast is an HP pavillion p6-2003w. I bought it a year
ago. It came with 4GB of RAM. I bought a new 4GB stick and
replaced the old one with it. The problem was still there. HP
only supports windoze on this beast. So for all I know there may
be some crap parts in it that work on windoze but not so well on
linux. When I buy my next machine I'll decide what I want in it.
Then I'll look to make sure all the hardware is compatible with
linux. I've read about people having trouble with finding linux
drivers for some hardware. Then I'll go to Fry's and buy the
parts.
On 01/07/2013 08:05 PM, Michael Butash
wrote:
Last
time that happened to me under linux, the video card was on the
fritz. Got worse enough it finally just died (mass distortion of
display on boot), replaced it, and never locked up again. I've
had memory (ram) cause this kind of thing, saw a crappy WD
external drive enclosure do it too (pc bios wouldn't boot with it
connected either, replaced enclosure). Most hard locks I always
suspect hardware now.
I bet largely it's using a different driver, or it's not loading a
video driver to use gpu. As long as something isn't using a
feature, the system doesn't lock. GPU went out on my laptop where
as soon as compiz kicked in, the display would wig out, but using
2d/safemode only was just fine. I think you might have a similar
problem.
-mb
On 01/07/2013 07:25 PM, Derek Trotter wrote:
This machine had ssh installed. When I say
it locked up, it locked up.
Nothing worked. Ssh wouldn't work. Http wouldn't work. It just
stopped
responding to anything.
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