Crashing with Dell

[Carlos Escutia Chávez]

I had the same, bloody problem: hard crashes at 5 minutes of using it
(Dell Inspiron 8100). Fiddling around with dmesg, I found that it was
nvidia driver the culprit. I was running Hoary, with additional repos,
so during a system upgrade, it came with a new kernel, AND, new
restricted modules. Nvidia driver included was buggy, so I just
downgraded kernel & restricted modules.

Not a single freeze since then : )

Hope it helps



2005/8/24, Derek Broughton <news at pointerstop.ca>:
> Matt Patterson wrote:
> 
> > Hard lockups are generally a hardware issue.
> 
> yeah, except there's a known problem with certain dells with SATA drives and
> a race condition with the CD drive (and a patch working it's way through
> kernel development).
> 
> I haven't had a lockup since I put a readable disk in the drive...
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