Crashing with Dell

I. Reingard reingard at hispeed.ch
Mon Aug 22 15:34:58 UTC 2005


i feel sorry for you, never heard of such a thing, and (linux)technicaly i  
am not a crack.
my wife has a dell latitude, i was just thinking today to install ubuntu  
hoary on it. hopefully other know what to do, René

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Am 22.08.2005, 17:24 Uhr, schrieb <Dennis_Drescher at sil.org>:

> I've been using Ubuntu for a couple months now on both a Dell Precision
> 330 and a Latitude D610. Off and on I've had problems with what I'll call
> hard crashes. What I mean is that the machine completely locks up and  
> will
> not allow me to take it down by going into a shell. The only way to
> recover is to power down. This obviously wreaks havoc on my file  
> structure
> and I have to run fsck often to fix the partitions. The Latitude, which  
> is
> running Ubuntu 5.0.4 (with the KDE desktop installed) locks up
> infrequently and it is hard to predict. The Precision 330 locks up  
> several
> times a day. Sometimes while I'm typing or using the mouse, many times
> just while it is sits idle.
>
> I've used Linux for several years now and have never had such an unstable
> system. I also run Kanotix on both machines in another partition and it
> can run all day long with no problems. I've also run checks on my  
> hardware
> and I'm confident it is functioning okay. I'm thinking it might be a
> problem with X but I'm not sure what to do at this point. Can anyone give
> me some clues as to how to diagnose this? Thanks.
>
> Regards,
>
> Dennis
>
>



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