Crashing with Dell

Dennis_Drescher at sil.org Dennis_Drescher at sil.org
Mon Aug 22 17:10:18 UTC 2005


Thanks everyone for the good feedback on the crashing problem I'm having 
with my two Dells. That's what I like about the Ubuntu community. Since 
I'm on digest mode, I'll reply that way too.

Dennis

> From: Charles Malespin <charles.malespin at gmail.com>
>
> Dennis, I was having similar problems with a Dell Dimension
> desktop(gnome, 5.04) and found that the problem was a Dell 1450 wirless
> USB adapter that I was using.  As soon as I got rid of the wireless then
> I no longer had freezes.  Are you using a Dell wireless card with your
> laptop?  I dont know if this helped, but that was what was causing my
> problems. 
> Charles
 
After weeks of tinkering around I got my Dell wireless to work. I hope I 
don't have to get rid of it. :-( However, I will keep an eye on it and 
maybe try running with out it for a while and see what happens. The laptop 
isn't nearly as bad as the Precision Desktop though. The desktop crashes 
much more frequently. Thanks for the tip.
 
> From: "Michael J. Lynch" <mlynch at gcom.com>
>
> Can you SSH or telnet into the machine?  If so, run top and see if X is
> taking up pretty much all of your processor.  If so, I've heard of this
> occurring and experienced it myself.  I don't know how to fix it, but
> I've heard that it *may* be a problem with the Xorg distribution of X
> and/or DRI.

My experience with SSH is limited but that sounds like a good way to find 
out how hard it has crashed. That should indicate if it is an X problem or 
not. Thanks!

> From: "I. Reingard" <reingard at hispeed.ch>
>
> 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

I'm sure we'll figure it out. Stay tuned!

> From: Jan Mynarik <mynarikj at phoenix.inf.upol.cz>
>
> Hi,
> 
> I had hard freezes too (Dell D610). Try to look here:
> 
> http://bugzilla.ubuntu.com/show_bug.cgi?id=13370
> 
> Is it similar? Does it happen when you have any CD/DVD in drive?

That looks interesting. However, I don't think, in this case, it has much 
to do with the CD/DVD drive though I have had lockup problems with DVD's. 
The problem I'm having happens when nothing is in the drive. There are a 
bunch of threads on the link you gave me. I'll try to follow them all. 
Thanks!




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