HP Pavilion / ATI 200M Random Crashes - was: [Suspend bug]

[oleksandr korneta]

on 02/10/2007 06:56 PM oleksandr korneta wrote:
> 
> on 02/03/2007 11:14 AM Ken Nordquist wrote:
>> I may have stumbled on the solution through blind luck.  First, via my 
>> local LUG, I was given the xorg.conf (listed below) to use.  The author 
>> who turned me on to this used ATI's newest proprietary driver, but I am 
>> using the radeon driver included with xorg.  He mentioned that he found 
>> two areas which are "must haves" in the xorg.conf.  They are:
>>
>>     SubSection "extmod"
>>         Option        "omit xfree86-dga"
>>     EndSubSection
>>
>> and
>>
>>     Option        "MaxGARTSize" "128"
> 
> 
> I have added this stuff to my xorg.conf
> 
>> He also mentioned that turning off the video shared memory in the bios 
>> is critical as well.
> Not sure what you mean by that so I didn't touch it.
>> Well, I did all that and viola!  I *still* had random crashes...  
>> needless to say I was very disappointed.
>>
>> I also have been having problems with my wireless randomly dropping the 
>> signal and not (easily) connecting and reconnecting... so I started to 
>> research that problem.  I will preface my solution by mentioning that I 
>> use ndiswrapper and I typically use the most current ndiswrapper source 
>> to build rpm's (I am currently using v1.34).  I "assumed" the problem 
>> was the driver and looked for a "new and improved" AirForce One driver.  
>> I discovered there was a new driver which fixed a security problem and 
>> tried it...  *Still* no luck...   After searching the ndiswrapper site, 
>> I discovered another AirForce One driver and tried it...
> I didnt have any random disconnects, although I was using the same 
> driver with ndiswrapper that proved to be working under FC4 (dated of 
> 2005). Nevertheless I followed your advice and switched to the driver 
> from tp://ftp.hp.com/pub/softpaq/sp33001-33500/sp33008.exe
> 
>> *And it worked!*  My wireless connects easily and does not randomly drop 
>> connections.
>>
>> And guess what...  now my HP Pavilion with the ATI 200M is *not* 
>> randomly crashing...
> unfortunately I still observe random crashes. 

alright, I decided to go wired, and see what happens. So it has been 
almost two weeks since I turned my wireless card off and deactivated the 
wlan0 device and guess what - no crashes since then. So I claim that the 
combination of ndiswrapper + x86_64 windows wifi drivers make my laptop 
to crash 1-2 times per day.

Any suggestions?

-- 
regards,
Oleksandr Korneta

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