In my case I'm quite sure it's an Xorg issue for a couple of reasons: (a) I've tried the Karmic kernel in Jaunty and it does NOT cause any Hangs / Freezes / Lockups.
(b) Using the Xorg-edgers PPA dramatically reduced the number/frequency of lockups. I know that I "should" try to follow up on this by "purging" the xorg- edgers PPA and then waiting for the very next lockup and filing a bug simply by: Alt + F2 > ubuntu-bug xorg, but (while that's all simple enough) the "follow-up" is simply beyond my skill level and far too time consuming. Read the "X crash, lockup, freeze, exit, or doesn't start/shutdown" section here: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/X/Reporting And particularly: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/X/Backtracing#Debugging%20Hangs%20/%20Freezes%20/%20Lockups It's also unrealistic for me to pursue that at this time because (a) frequent and random lockups are very hard on hardware and my only backup hardware right now is an old 333MHZ PII, and (b) due to their random, and yet sometimes frequent nature it makes it nearly impossible to complete any other work dependably while troubleshooting the problem. So for me the answer was to simply "give up" on Karmic and depend on Jaunty which has always been stable on my hardware (Hardy is also), and I'm also devoting as much time as possible to testing Lucid which so far doesn't appear to have the "hard lockup" issue for me. I know that's not an ideal situation but it's the only reasonable solution for me at this time. -- Hard lockups with new kernels https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/475010 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
