On Friday 04 February 2011 18:12:50 Paul Hartman wrote: > On Fri, Feb 4, 2011 at 10:36 AM, Peter Humphrey > <pe...@humphrey.ukfsn.org> wrote: > > At the risk of hijacking the thread, this reminds me of a problem > > on my workstation. It runs Gentoo fine (well, sluggishly) but when > > I installed Fedora 14 to try it, I found the mouse and keyboard > > freezing (but not the display) at random times that ranged from > > one minute to several hours. When that happened I tried to log in > > via SSH but got a no-route-to-host error. Then I remembered that > > the same thing had happened months earlier with Mandriva. > > > > Anyone here have an idea? I've tried switching off everything I can > > think of in the BIOS, but no joy. Temperatures are fine according > > to gkrellm. > > Perhaps try a newer kernel version, if you can. I think there was one > in 2.6.35 era that did that kind of stuff...
I'll look into that - thanks. Meanwhile, yesterday I even had a lockup while running from the live CD, so installing on this box is more a matter of luck than usual. -- Rgds Peter. Linux Counter 5290, 1994-04-23.
