I think I actually managed to get it to freeze with the wireless driver
module unloaded, or so I thought. However, I am doing something different
now with the driver (subtle configuration changes setting me back to where
I was before this started, I think...) and haven't had a freeze for a
couple of hours. Googling reveals others having freezing problems they
trace to this wireless chip and/or driver. If only life were easy.
Judah
On Tue, 20 Feb 2007, Rob Sherwood wrote:
On Tue, Feb 20, 2007 at 01:04:03AM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] 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).
Third party kernel drivers are definitely suspect. I was thinking that
third party video drivers are the main culprit, but you said it happens
with and without X. Forgot about the wireless driver. Try to see if
the driver has a module option for verbose/debugging mode and see if you
can correlate it's output with the crashing. Or just do what someone
else suggested and boot off a live installation disk without the driver.
- Rob
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