Ubuntu amd64 freezes randomly

Daniel asmosis.asterix at gmail.com
Sun Jun 13 10:34:01 UTC 2010


Thank you for your reply. My video card is a :Mobility Radeon HD 4330Series.
What's strange is the fact that in ubuntu 9.10 it worked fine. If someone
still has some hints I would gladly listen to them. Robert, there must be a
solution which I hope we will find soon.
Have a nice day!

On Sun, Jun 13, 2010 at 11:04 AM, Robert P. J. Day <rpjday at crashcourse.ca>wrote:

> On Sun, 13 Jun 2010, Daniel wrote:
>
> > Hello, I have a very strange problem regarding my ubuntu laptop.
> > Randomly it freezes and by this I mean everything freezes, sound,
> > video, mouse cursor. I am not able to do anything(any key
> > combinations, anything). Why is this happening, how can I debug it
> > and fix this problem? I'm running ubuntu amd64 on my dell inspiron
> > 1545.
>
>   i've seen exactly the same thing on my gateway nv52 laptop, 64-bit
> install with an athlon X2 QL-65 processor.  on a daily basis, it
> simply hangs.  i've seen behaviour like this before elsewhere and it's
> almost always a video driver problem.  on my system, lspci shows:
>
> 01:05.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc RS780M/RS780MN
> [Radeon HD 3200 Graphics]
>
>  it's annoying but, even in this day and age, i've simply accepted
> that video drivers under linux will never, ever be totally reliable.
> i just live with it.
>
> rday
>
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