You might try booting to a live CD with a minimal (or at least
different) set of drivers and see if it still locks.
-Derek
Judah Milgram wrote:
memtest86 - yup. No problems revealed.
heating - I instrumented the box with "logger `acpi -tB`" running on a
2-second loop. Temp was normal for the one freeze I captured.
bad caps - oh my! But as this is a laptop I will resist opening it up as
long as possible.
For various reasons I am semi-suspecting the wireless driver (rt2500).
I am reminded of a very enjoyable evening spent in a certain lab with a
25 ft extension cord and a big box of random components... the end of
the cord had been cut and stripped and alligator clips attached. I can
confirm that the best pops come from capacitors.
Rob Sherwood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On Sun, Feb 18, 2007 at 01:00:16PM -0500, J. Milgram wrote:
My too-new-to-be-doing-that laptop has started freezing at random
intervals, between a minute and a few hours after boot. Am doing all the
obvious (to me) things to debug but does anyone have any tricks to share?
First thoughts: hardware problem
1) mem problem - try running memtest86
2) heating problem (less likely if it freezes when not doing anything)
check out the lm sensors package; IIRC, they have a kernel
warning setting
3) new favorite hardware problem: bad capacitors
http://www.badcaps.com
- Rob
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PS Yay Ben for being the other person who uses the tty+syslog trick :-)
