Laptop lockups

[Ray Leventhal]

Bart Silverstrim wrote:
> I have a friend that is running 8.04 on a Dell Precision M2300. He tried 
> using 8.10 on it, but said that it would lock up tight at random time 
> intervals. He said the logs were empty of errors from the time of the 
> freezes, pointer locked, keyboard, etc...nothing responded. Not even 
> connecting remotely from another system into the laptop would work, so 
> even the network stack stopped responding.
> 
> He reverted to 8.04 and said it's okay with him because it works fine 
> for his needs, but did anyone else run into behavior like this in moving 
> 8.04 to 8.10?
> 
> -Bart
> 
I had this very issue on a Dell Inspiron 9400 (E1705), but only when 
8.10 was installed on the entire disk using default partitioning.  I 
later decided to have a small M$ partition at the front of the drive and 
manually installed Intrepid on the back end with a custom scheme (/ for 
most of the remaining space after M$, then a 4GB swap at the end - the 
system has 2GB RAM).

Since doing that, I've not had any lockups at all and have since deleted 
M$ from the front partition and reduced that partition in size to a mere 
512MB.  I have NO IDEA why this worked, but it did for me.

HTH, YMMV,
-Ray