computer freezing

[jim ruxton]

On Sat, 2007-03-17 at 23:58 -0400, Alex Maynard wrote:
> 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.
Thanks Alex, I have a nvidia card so probably not this. I'm going to try
KDE for a while as opposed to Gnome and see if that makes a difference.
Jim
> 
> Alex
> 
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