Crashing with Dell

Derek Broughton news at pointerstop.ca
Tue Aug 23 13:55:51 UTC 2005


Matthias Heiler wrote:

> Dennis_Drescher at sil.org writes:
> 
> I had the same problem with D610 and Kubuntu.  Frequent,
> non-deterministic hard crashes (complete "freezes").  The system was
> unusable for serious work.
> 
> 1.) Go to
> 
>
http://packages.ubuntu.com/cgi-bin/search_packages.pl?keywords=linux-image-2.6.12&searchon=names&subword=1&version=breezy&release=all
> 
> and download the latest kernel package from breezy.  It's a .deb file.

Wouldn't it be a whole lot easier to add:

deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu breezy main restricted

to /etc/apt/sources.list, do:

aptitude update; aptitude install linux-image-686

and then restore the sources.list?
-- 
derek





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