*[UPDATE]* Re: 8.10 freezing a lot more recently.

[Dirk Freitag]

Steve Cook wrote:
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> NoOp wrote:
>> 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/
>>
> I was going to suggest https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/59
> which has help me in the past.
> 
>>> 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).
>>
> Can’t say I’ve had much success with IEs4Linux, it has never been
> particularly stable on any machine I’be tried it on.
> 
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Just as an update, I have not had any issues with the computer freezing 
on its own.  Seems to be just related to IEs4Linux on my girl's school 
site.  Thanks everyone for the input.

--
Dirk Freitag
Linux Registered User Number 487244          [http://counter.li.org/]

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