That's interesting, Scott. Since upgrading from 9.04 to 9.10 I'm having multiple crashes in a day on a Dell Optiplex GX260 (all Intel hardware).
The crashes were less frequent when I went to an older 2-button mouse plugged into the mouse port... but I missed the scroll wheel and went back to my usb MS Mouse. I've noticed the crashes usually occur while typing. Between those 2 observations, I'm suspicious of the input section (keyboard and mouse) of the X-server. I never had these problems on Red Hat based distributions. And since I never had frequent crashes (multiple times a day!!) under 9.04, I'm assuming it's an Ubuntu configuration created issue, rather than a Debian issue. All guesswork, of course. Here's my lspci output: r...@tuxsun1:~# lspci 00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation 82845G/GL[Brookdale-G]/GE/PE DRAM Controller/Host-Hub Interface (rev 01) 00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation 82845G/GL[Brookdale-G]/GE Chipset Integrated Graphics Device (rev 01) 00:1d.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) USB UHCI Controller #1 (rev 01) 00:1d.1 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) USB UHCI Controller #2 (rev 01) 00:1d.2 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) USB UHCI Controller #3 (rev 01) 00:1d.7 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-M) USB2 EHCI Controller (rev 01) 00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801 PCI Bridge (rev 81) 00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBL (ICH4/ICH4-L) LPC Interface Bridge (rev 01) 00:1f.1 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82801DB (ICH4) IDE Controller (rev 01) 00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) SMBus Controller (rev 01) 00:1f.5 Multimedia audio controller: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) AC'97 Audio Controller (rev 01) 01:0c.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation 82540EM Gigabit Ethernet Controller (rev 02) On Mon, Nov 9, 2009 at 6:45 AM, Scott Vargovich <[email protected]>wrote: > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > Sometimes ubuntu can do funky things with certain hardware. I can't > even run it on my laptop because everything in it is Intel based. I'm > not sure I have an answer for you, but to give me and others a better > idea of what type of hardware you're running, post the output of > 'lspci' as root. We can make better suggestions once we know the > hardware you're dealing with. > > ubuntulearner wrote: > > Hi everybody, i need a little help with (k)ubuntu 9.10. I have a > > laptop; I used it with ubuntu 9.04 and recently made un update to > > 9.10 via apt.-get, and it works greatly, both under Gnome and under > > KDE. In my pc I had fedora and I decided to switch to Ubuntu. It > > works quite well though I have some problems. For instance, in > > Gnome I sometimes "lose" desktop theme: I use Dust but sometimes a > > problems occurs and my desktop turns to a "windows 95 clone". > > Moreover, both under Gnome and KDE there are quite often some > > random crashes with file manager; the system continues working, but > > I have to open again all the windows. Some programs (like aMule) > > are impossible to use, since they crash every 2 minutes; these > > happens randomly, even though I just sit and watch the screen. I > > installed kubuntu and then ubuntu (sudo apt-get install ubuntu- > > desktop), then tried to do the opposite, installing ubuntu and then > > kubuntu (sudo apt-get install kubuntu-desktop) but nothing has > > changed. > > > > I thought it could be a problem with video drivers, but i use the > > ones "suggested" by kubuntu after the installation. I memtested my > > pc and nothing was wrong; how can it be possible to have problems > > with my pc and not with my laptop? Can anybody help me? TIA > > > > > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) > Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ > > iEYEARECAAYFAkr4DwQACgkQz4LpFfj13H4z3wCgpemY4PEqh7eTss2gsiR9vCfi > fa4An3neYIh/LtDuKHflG1DJJsBoDtMy > =pjo9 > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Linux Users > Group. > To post a message, send email to [email protected] > To unsubscribe, send email to [email protected] > For more options, visit our group at > http://groups.google.com/group/linuxusersgroup > -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~--- > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Linux Users Group. To post a message, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit our group at http://groups.google.com/group/linuxusersgroup
