computer freezing

[Alex Maynard]

On Sat, 17 Mar 2007, jim ruxton wrote:

> Hi I'm wondering if anyone can help me figure out why my laptop keeps
> freezing. I'm running FC5. The freezing is intermittent but seems to be
> happening more often (or I'm getting less impatient) . I can't seem to
> find a pattern to it for example when using specific programs. If I am
> doing nothng and just let it run it will often freeze. I did a RAM test
> and that seems ok. Is it possible the Kernel is corrupted somehow? Below
> is my /var/log/messages . Only way I can interact with the system is
> with altSysRQ commands. This is really frustrating. Anyone have any
> ideas what I can try. When it freezes I can't even SSH into it so I
> don't think it is a problem with X windows.
> jim


I had some trouble with an old thinkpad T21 that used to freeze
intermittently.  It turned out to be related to the S3 savage card.
I found the problem at addressed here:
http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/archive/25/2004/08/4/221188
If you think this relates at all to your problem (probably it doesn't),
I can pull up some old notes I took on it.

Alex



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