FC5 freeze issue

Tony Crouch acrouch2 at une.edu.au
Tue May 23 10:31:10 UTC 2006


Hi All, 
Lately, I have been experiencing a random freeze issue on my HP compaq
nx9010 notebook. I originally thought this may have been due to an
over-heating issue as I had a similar problem last year, but replacing
the heatsink compound fixed this problem.

What tends to make me thinks its a linux problem is that my comp has
never freezed in Windows (XP SP2).

I have tested the memory (DDR SODIMM 512MB) with memtest86+ v.3.2. and
it all comes up clean.

I am yet to run the built-in HP BIOS HDD test, I will do this tonight,
and let you know how I go.

Once the freeze occurs I am unable to ping the computer's NIC. Am unable
to switch to 'init 3' by 'Ctrl+Alt+F1', and unable to restart the
X-server by 'Ctrl+Alt+Del'.

Was wondering if anyone else could provide some insight ... perhaps a
bugzilla report is required should a solution not be sought through this
list.

If anyone can suggest extra logs to post to this list / investigate.
Just let me know.

I have pasted below my /sbin/lspci -v output in quoted text below:


> [tony at localhost ~]$ /sbin/lspci -v
> 00:00.0 Host bridge: ATI Technologies Inc RS200/RS200M AGP Bridge [IGP 340M] (rev 02)
>         Flags: bus master, 66MHz, medium devsel, latency 64
>         Memory at d4000000 (32-bit, prefetchable) [size=64M]
>         Memory at d0007000 (32-bit, prefetchable) [size=4K]
>         Capabilities: <access denied>
> 
> 00:01.0 PCI bridge: ATI Technologies Inc PCI Bridge [IGP 340M] (prog-if 00 [Normal decode])
>         Flags: bus master, 66MHz, medium devsel, latency 99
>         Bus: primary=00, secondary=01, subordinate=01, sec-latency=68
>         I/O behind bridge: 00009000-00009fff
>         Memory behind bridge: d0300000-d03fffff
>         Prefetchable memory behind bridge: d8000000-dfffffff
> 
> 00:06.0 Multimedia audio controller: ALi Corporation M5451 PCI AC-Link Controller Audio Device (rev 02)
>         Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company Unknown device 0850
>         Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 64, IRQ 5
>         I/O ports at 1000 [size=256]
>         Memory at d0000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4K]
>         Capabilities: <access denied>
> 
> 00:07.0 ISA bridge: ALi Corporation M1533/M1535 PCI to ISA Bridge [Aladdin IV/V/V+]
>         Subsystem: ALi Corporation ALi M1533 Aladdin IV/V ISA Bridge
>         Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 0
>         Capabilities: <access denied>
> 
> 00:08.0 Modem: ALi Corporation M5457 AC'97 Modem Controller (prog-if 00 [Generic])
>         Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company Unknown device 0850
>         Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 64, IRQ 10
>         Memory at d0001000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4K]
>         I/O ports at 1400 [size=256]
>         Capabilities: <access denied>
> 
> 00:09.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM4303 802.11b Wireless LAN Controller (rev 02)
>         Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company Unknown device 12f3
>         Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 168, IRQ 10
>         Memory at d0002000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=8K]
> 
> 00:0a.0 CardBus bridge: Texas Instruments PCI1410 PC card Cardbus Controller (rev 02)
>         Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 168, IRQ 11
>         Memory at d0004000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4K]
>         Bus: primary=00, secondary=02, subordinate=05, sec-latency=176
>         Memory window 0: 30000000-31fff000 (prefetchable)
>         Memory window 1: 32000000-33fff000
>         I/O window 0: 00001800-000018ff
>         I/O window 1: 00001c00-00001cff
>         16-bit legacy interface ports at 0001
> 
> 00:0b.0 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82xxxxx UHCI USB 1.1 Controller (rev 50) (prog-if 00 [UHCI])
>         Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company Unknown device 0850
>         Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 64, IRQ 10
>         I/O ports at 2000 [size=32]
>         Capabilities: <access denied>
> 
> 00:0b.1 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82xxxxx UHCI USB 1.1 Controller (rev 50) (prog-if 00 [UHCI])
>         Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company Unknown device 0850
>         Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 64, IRQ 10
>         I/O ports at 2020 [size=32]
>         Capabilities: <access denied>
> 
> 00:0b.2 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. USB 2.0 (rev 51) (prog-if 20 [EHCI])
>         Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company Unknown device 0850
>         Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 64, IRQ 11
>         Memory at d0005000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=256]
>         Capabilities: <access denied>
> 
> 00:0c.0 FireWire (IEEE 1394): Texas Instruments TSB43AB21 IEEE-1394a-2000 Controller (PHY/Link) (prog-if 10 [OHCI])
>         Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company Unknown device 0850
>         Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 64, IRQ 10
>         Memory at d0005800 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=2K]
>         Memory at d0008000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16K]
>         Capabilities: <access denied>
> 
> 00:10.0 IDE interface: ALi Corporation M5229 IDE (rev c4) (prog-if fa)
>         Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company Unknown device 0850
>         Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 32
>         I/O ports at 2040 [size=16]
>         Capabilities: <access denied>
> 
> 00:11.0 Bridge: ALi Corporation M7101 Power Management Controller [PMU]
>         Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company Unknown device 0850
>         Flags: medium devsel
> 
> 00:12.0 Ethernet controller: National Semiconductor Corporation DP83815 (MacPhyter) Ethernet Controller
>         Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company Unknown device 0850
>         Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 90, IRQ 10
>         I/O ports at 2400 [size=256]
>         Memory at d0006000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4K]
>         [virtual] Expansion ROM at 34000000 [disabled] [size=64K]
>         Capabilities: <access denied>
> 
> 01:05.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc Radeon IGP 330M/340M/350M (prog-if 00 [VGA])
>         Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company Radeon IGP 345M
>         Flags: bus master, stepping, fast Back2Back, 66MHz, medium devsel, latency 66, IRQ 10
>         Memory at d8000000 (32-bit, prefetchable) [size=128M]
>         I/O ports at 9000 [size=256]
>         Memory at d0300000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=64K]
>         [virtual] Expansion ROM at d0320000 [disabled] [size=128K]
>         Capabilities: <access denied>
> 

Thanks for your help.

Cheers, 
Tony Crouch
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