I'm esperiencing a bug which may be related. I occasionally get a system freeze with ubuntu 8.04, kernel 2.6.24-17-generic, no problems with previous ubuntu releases. My system is an acer aspire 5024. I'm using the open source driver for my ati mobility radeon x700 graphics card.
I have no video scramble, but a total freeze of the input. The system goes on with his activity, but with a considerable slowdown. The freeze is very unpredictable, but seems to happen in response to some action, as: - open a link in firefox - lauch a virtualbox machine Sometimes freeze happen very short after system boot up, sometimes after >1h of usage. What I've tried. I tried to use a different web browser, but didn't helped. I've tried to install acer kernel modules: $ lsmod |grep acer acer_acpi 18112 0 led_class 6020 2 b43,acer_acpi wmi_acer 9644 1 acer_acpi Recently I got similar problems with a vanilla kernel (don't rember version number!) under gobolinux, and acer modules solved them. However, under ubuntu 8.04 that didn't helped at all. Tried proprietary ati drivers, and didn't helped either. I will try to plug-in an usb mouse, to see if helps. Let me know if you need some other details. -- [hardy] kernel 2.6.24-16-generic + radeon driver = system freezes https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/220345 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
