freezing problems

[Matt Patterson]

I always use the edit option, scroll to the end, and add what I want. 
Maybe the add works too. Either way its not really a big deal because I 
think none of those changes are permanent.

Desktops still have acpi bioses, so yes, disabling is worth a try.

Turning off graphics acceleration will only effect your gaming/gl 
screensaver experience. Unless your processor is really too slow (like 
500 MHz) it shouldnt effect video playback. Normal office software, web 
browsing, etc will not be effected at all.

Matt


Charles Malespin wrote:

>Thanks Matt, just a quick question....
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>> Either way, disable both 
>>of them by passing them as kernel options during boot. The easiest way 
>>to do that is to press ESC at the GRUB screen when it prompts for you to 
>>do so (I think it is ESC). Then edit the default kernel boot line adding 
>>noapic and nolapic to the end. 
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>Just to make sure that I understand and not mess anything more up...
>When I went to the edit menu of GRUB, it gave me a list of things, one
>of them was kernel.  It also gave me the options to either edit, or add
>a new option(something like that...) but I want to pick 'edit' and use
>that on the kernel line to add the noapic and nolapic lines right?
>Sorry, I just dont wanna delete or edit anything I dont need to cause I
>dont know what any of it means.  
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>>These changes are not permanent, only for 
>>the current boot. To change them permanently you have to add them to the 
>>/boot/grub/menu.lst file options.
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>>Another option to add the the kernel options is acpi=off or noacpi (i 
>>cant remember which, so just do both). This turns off  the acpi features 
>>of the kernel. Acpi is used to enumerate the interrupts on the system, 
>>but some bioses just suck and dont work, so turn off the features for 
>>now. This might cause some things to disappear and stop working on 
>>laptops, but its a good test. It will also prevent power saving features 
>>from working.
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>I am running a desktop, does that make a difference?
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>>Turn off all the graphics acceleration features in your 
>>/etc/X11/xorg.conf file. That means commenting out the dri, and glx 
>>lines. 
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>What will turning off the graphics acceleration features do in terms of
>how the video card performs ie what will I not be able to do as a result
>of turning this off?
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>Thanks again and sorry for all the "easy" questions.... This is all new
>to me so hopefully you guys will bear with me!
>Charles
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