On Monday 01 Sep 2008, V.C.Mohan wrote: > Well I tried UBUNTU first. 32 bit version. I liked it in many > respects until I found that I get freezes. > It appears that my ASUS M2V HDMI mother board and the Linksys wmp54G > wireless adapter card have issues. Motherboard issue possibly was > overcome by disabling my absent FDD in the bios and keeping ACPI > offin UBUNTU installation. There were occassional freezes while using > Firefox which required hard reboots. I tried NDISWrapper but did not > help much. From the forums I find that this problem is present with > all distributions and so cannot help. I could not install > x-windows-system-lib required for a seismic data processing software > porting from UNIX. I got info that this was installed on a Fedora > successfully. Thats the reason I installed Fedora. But I found it > trying to download too big an update > without giving an option. > Meanwhile I got the new Kernel---19 for UBUNTU and the freezes have > become worse. Also I installed Flash player. It appears after playing > a few clips it automatically reboots. > Then I turned to OpenSuse 11.0 It appeared good. So tried to install > after the initial setup just when I clicked next so that everything > will be installed it rebooted. I checked up the media, my memory etc. > Everything is OK. Once more I will try openSUSE. Saifi says he uses > openSUSE. openSUSE does not give an option to where the GRUB loader > is to be kept. However it offers to keep all distros and windows.
The symptoms you are describing, it appears you have bad hardware. First thing I would check is the memory, then replace the video card (if embedded then disable it in BIOS), and finally the motherboard. I have had a similar experience with Win XP - spontaneous reboot w/o any warning - the registry got corrupted and I simply could not clean the errors. Fresh install was the only option. (I did check the hardware with a Linux LiveCD and it was stable) > Thats the reason I will have 3 Linuxs on my system. If LINUX doesnot > do anything to its wireless network then I have to either change my > wireless card to a lesser known brand or connect internet direct on > to my desktop LAN . > For me it appears LINUX is still not as good as windows xp. On how many systems have you installed Linux and Windows XP to arrive at above conclusion? At the end of the day, the choice is yours - stick with whichever OS is most stable on the specific hardware setup you have described above. -- Arun Khan ------------------------------------ ============================================================== (2nd Saturday) Technical Meetups, Hackathons, Workshops, BoFs Events : http://events.twincling.org/ Photos : http://photos.twincling.org/ Blog : http://blogs.twincling.org/ Website : http://www.twincling.org/ Registered "not for profit" Open Source promotion organization Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh, India. ============================================================== Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/twincling/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/twincling/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
