8.04 still locks up

[Marcin 'Qrczak' Kowalczyk]

2008/9/5 elmo <elmo at ne.rr.com>:

> I thought that I finally had a UBUNTU 8.04 that doesn't freeze and
> lockup but no, after downloads from different sources, the same old
> problem ...it works fine for a up to half hour or so then suddenly, the
> cursor locks and there's nothing I do can free it other than turn the
> computer off and back on and start over.

What hardware?

My Thinkpad T61p was freezing randomly every couple of days, with the
Caps LED blinking. I searched forums and disabled the wifi driver by
making a file /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist-wireless with "blacklist
iwl4965". The laptop no longer freezes.

(The side effect is that I cannot use wifi. I did not have a use for
it anyway, but perhaps I will want it some day. I tried ndiswrappers
but it did not work: newer Windows drivers had unresolved symbols, and
an older driver which would actually load caused an oops and then
system hanged at start every time until I removed the ndiswrappers
driver.)

-- 
Marcin Kowalczyk
qrczak at knm.org.pl
http://qrnik.knm.org.pl/~qrczak/