Hardy Lockups

[Keith Clark]

On Wed, 2008-06-11 at 15:35 -0400, Shannon McMackin wrote:
> Keith Clark wrote:
> > I seem to be having many problems with my laptop since upgrading to
> > Hardy.  I can work on my machine for 3 hours, then over a span of 15-30
> > seconds things slow right down, become unresponsive and then the
> > keyboard locks up.  I have no choice but to power cycle.
> > 
> > I have no idea why this would happen.  Any ideas on this one.  It did
> > not happen in the last release.
> > 
> > Keith
> > 
> > 
> > 
> I have occasional lock-ups too...
> 
> I'm still trying to figure out my issue.  X locks up with only mouse 
> movement and I have to give it the 1 finger salute to get anything back.
> 
> I thought it was FF3 and Flash, but now I'm not sure...
> 
> The last lock-up happened with Thunderbird, FF3 and my VPN client open 
> and of course, it always happens when I'm not around...
> 
> What wireless chipset do you have?
> 
> 
> 
I have a Broadcom chipset, but I'm only using a wired connection at the
moment.  The wireless is a pita and never works reliably under Ubuntu.

Keith