laptop freezing?

[Jonathan Jesse]

On Jan 22, 2008 3:21 AM, lanzen <lanzenesi at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Tuesday 22 January 2008 03:24:50 Jonathan Jesse wrote:
>
> > Anyways I am running 7.10 on my
> > Dell Latitude D830 and every now and then the entire laptop seems to
> > freeze.  I see no hard drive activity thought the wifi light still
> flashes.
> >  I am able to ping the box and also SSH into the system, but  I can't do
> a
> > Ctl+Alt+Backspace to restart X or when I ssh into the system I am unable
> to
> > reboot the system. Any ideas?
> > Any files I can post to hlp out debugging
> > this problem?
>
> Can you see the system log while you ssh into your machine? It could be
> interesting to see what happens just before the freeze, but chances are
> you
> wouldn't find anything relevant.
>
> Anyway, it looks as if this is related to a nasty bug that has made is way
> in
> k/ubuntu soon after the last nvidia update (D830 has a nvidia card,
> right?)
> when gutsy became release.
>
> Have e look at these:
>
> http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=587905
> http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=585714
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/145112
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/157777
>
> And see if you think that what you got sounds similar.
>
> In my case I had this bug on my desktop, but not on my laptop. I solved it
> by
> installing the new nvidia driver
> http://www.nvidia.com/object/linux_display_amd64_169.09.html
>
> This can be achieved manually or, in a smooth and easy way, via envy
> http://albertomilone.com/nvidia_scripts1.html
>
> Before doing all that above, make sure you are reasonably thinking this
> fix
> should fix your freezes.
>
>
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Yes it is the D830 with the NVida card in it.  I'll have to check those
links when I'm not working .

Thanks for the help, will update this post when I get a chance to try it
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