8.10 freezing a lot more recently.

[NoOp]

On 04/15/2009 08:04 AM, Dirk Freitag wrote:
> Steve Cook wrote:
[...]
>>>>
>>> The computer is only a few months old.  It is a Lenovo IdeaPad S10 with 
>>> an Intel Atom processor.  I am unable to check the temperature in the 
>>> BIOS, but I am fairly certain that it is not overheating.  I do only 
>>> have 1GB of memory, so I think this could definitely be contributing to 
>>> it.  I will have to continue to watch it.  Thanks for the input though.
>>>
>>>
>>> --
>> 1 Gig of memory is quite adequate.  I have a machine running 8.10 with
>> 384MiB of memory and a 500MHz CPU with out any problems.
>> The times have suffered lock ups have always been hardware problems.
>> Generally reseating cables etc. has cured them, or replacing power supplies.
>> Just because a machine is new doesn’t mean there isn’t a hardware problem.
>> 

> 
> 
> This is true.  I am really hoping that I am not having hardware issues 
> already with this machine.  Maybe I should have noted, that it only 
> freezes and has problems when my girlfriend is using it for school 
> trying to take online tests and classes through IEs4linux.  She has to 
> use IEs4linux because the site that she has to use to take her online 
> courses do not like Firefox in Linux.  She uses Firefox on her windows 
> laptop at her house for these sites without any problems.  But if you 
> try to access the sites through Firefox in Linux, you get an error 
> saying that the site only works under IE or Netscape.

In that case, I'd recommend trying prefbar[1] and setting the 'User
Agent' to IE WinXP. That will temporarily 'spoof' the UA so that the
site thinks it is talking to IE. If she can use Fx from her Windows
machine, then she should be able to use it from your linux machine. If
you have a link to the sight (one that does not require a password),
then it should be fairly easy to see what the browser is sniffing for.

[1] http://prefbar.mozdev.org/

> 
> So I installed IEs4Linux to see if that would work, and it did, except 
> when she went to take a test, the computer froze.  And it keeps freezing 
> (at different points I might add) when she tries to take a test on the 
> site.  I apologize that I was not more specific with my first email, but 
> maybe this is the issue?

Perhaps. However, I also have IEs4Linux (IE6) installed on several
systems - the lowest being 1.6Ghz/768MB - and it seems to be reasonably
well behaved. (My son also takes courses where IE is _required_ & Fx
will not work at all - even with UA spoofing).