On Sun, Sep 26, 1999 at 02:47:10PM +0200, Hanno Wagner wrote: > I installed Debian 2.1 linux on my IBM Think Pad 770 with a 233MHz > Pentium MMX with 128MB of RAM on a 2GB disk partition. I am running > linux 3.0.36 kernel. The machine is dual bootable: M$ NT (not by choice) > and linux. The problem that I am encountering is that my linux > installation crashes my labtop just about every day since I installed > it. When it crashes everything "freezes"--even the power button. When > this happens the last entry in the syslog contains sometimes, multiple > entries of the following line: > "Date_and_time my_machine_name -- MARK --"
These are just keep-alives of the syslog daemon nothing unusual ... > Has anyone else encounter this phenomon? On my previous job my Nope .. Althought i havent got a 770 ... > workstation was debian 2.1 linux and I administered a number of linux > machines and these machines were very stable: they were up 24hrs/day > pretty much all year round. I am running Debian slink with a Kernel 2.2.12 + pcmcia + irda + alsa on my Thinkpad 390 without any problem ... > I suspect that the problem is most likely related to my labtop hardware. What modules do you have loaded - Any pcmcia utils ? Anything special you are doing while the machine crashes ? Do you have X Running ? You are running quiet an old Kernel though this might not mean its unstable there might be some fixes to known problems in the 2 1/2 Years of development between 2.0.36 and 2.2.12 ... Try a new kernel ... Flo -- Florian Lohoff [EMAIL PROTECTED] +49-5241-470566 ... The failure can be random; however, when it does occur, it is catastrophic and is repeatable ... Cisco Field Notice
