Any time I hear about a system "freezing up" the first thing I check is the video drivers. I would suggest grabbing the latest Linux drivers from the vendor's website. This may be Gateway, or if the laptop is using an ATI card, then visit the ATI website. You may have to do some investigation to determine the exact make/model of your video card (though this is normally indicated in the specs for the system).
Suse does a fairly decent job of installing the correct drivers, but sometimes some extra attention is needed (like the nvidia drivers). Hope this helps. Shawn On Saturday 30 October 2004 21:15, Jim Suydam wrote: > I have tried numerous Linux distributions on my Gateway 9500 Solo > laptop. At times, I've even had the wireless card (Netgear MA401) > working. One of the easier distributions to set up on this laptop is > SUSE 9.1 With SUSE, the wireless card was fairly simple to set up. > Unfortunately, there seems to be some incompatibility with SUSE and > the laptop. It freezes up after several minutes of use in graphical > mode. This doesn't seem to be an issue in text mode. The same laptop > successfully ran Windows and Red Hat 7.1 for 2 years with no problems. > Does anyone have any ideas on what might be causing the freeze up > syndrome with SUSE? Thanks, Jim _______________________________________________ clug-talk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) **Please remove these lines when replying
