Aspire One lock-up issue

[Brian McKee]

On Fri, May 8, 2009 at 4:33 PM, Anthony M. Rasat
<anthony.rasat at gmail.com> wrote:
> Curtis Vaughan wrote:
>>Alas it has happened again and this time when I was just downloading a
> tar file.
>>I have seen posts where people with the same problem apparently ended up
>>  returning their comps to Acer. I just hope I don't have to go down
> that road.
>
> Just curious, do you have cpu frequency scaling and its utility installed?
>
> dpkg --get-selections | grep cpufrequtils
>
> If you have:
> cpufrequtils              install
>
> It means you have them. Now, my netbook is a VIA C7-M ULV (vs your Atom processor within that Aspire One), I have to raise cpu frequency scaling's minimum frequency value to stop those random freezing. You might want to take a look in your system's frequency settings:
>
> sudo cat /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/cpufreq/scaling_min_freq

800000 on my Aspire One FYI

Brian
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