FC3 Freezes Every Day

[Matt Nuzum]

I am using the default nv driver.  I too am using a Sony Vaio.  Also,
this happens while I'm working and I'm not doing anything special.

Realy, my question is how can I diagnose what happened to cause the
crash.  I hear a moment (3 seconds or so) of intense disk activity
right before the freeze so I think something is being logged (similar
to XP Dumplog).

Is there some tool I can use to explore what happened before the
freeze? I've looked at dmesg but it seems to start over with the
reboot.

Can I put something in the grub boot command that will enable some
kind of logging in case of a crash?

I've already had my crash for today so I suspect it'll be tomorrow
before I crash again.

On Fri, 26 Nov 2004 14:36:10 -0500, David Cary Hart <fedora at tqmcube.com> wrote:
> On Fri, 2004-11-26 at 12:12 -0500, Matt Nuzum wrote:
> > My computer is a P4 1.6GHz 384MB Ram, NVidia (using default nv module)
> > system that is dual boot XP Home SP2 and FC3. I've used RH9,FC1,FC2
> > and now FC3 on this computer.  I'm not having the problem freezing in
> > Windows and I didn't have it with FC2 or prior  versions.
> 
> Do you have the same problems with the generic "nv" driver? I am going
> to guess that the nvidia driver could be the problem. There are just so
> many variables. For me (YMMV - YMMV!) the most stable conditions (on my
> Sony Vaio) are achieved as follows:
> 
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