FC5 freezes my laptop

[Andy Green]

Johannes Christian wrote:

> I think you should press CTRL+ALT+F1 rather than power button. It will 
> show you a login screen. Just log in and see some error raised in error 
> message.

Good advice, but if his box is really frozen it will ignore his request 
to switch to a virtual console.  Why not switch there before it dies and 
wait until it dies to see if there are any panics or other diagnostics 
shown.

Also X drivers are common causes of freezeups.  Try using the "vesa" 
driver instead of whatever is used currently in /etc/X11/xorg.conf to 
see if that makes a difference.

-Andy
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