Fedora Hangs on Laptop

[Jim]

bruce wrote:
> tell me.
>
> in your xorg.conf.. what's the video driver you're using??
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: fedora-list-bounces at redhat.com
> [mailto:fedora-list-bounces at redhat.com]On Behalf Of Rupesh P
> Sent: Monday, December 01, 2008 2:47 AM
> To: fedora-list at redhat.com
> Subject: Re: Fedora Hangs on Laptop
>
>
>
> I'm having a similar problem with Fedora 10 on Dell Latitude D630.
> Actually, Fedora 10 has been working great for the past two days. But today
> after I installed the broadcom-wl package for wireless, whenever I start the
> wifi machine just hangs / freezes completely.
> The CapsLock and ScrollLock buttons keep flashing on and off and the only
> way out is to  turn the
> system off and restart.
>
> Not sure why this is happening, apart from this hiccup fedora 10 seems to be
> great.
>
> can somebody help me out?
>
> Thanks,
> Rupesh
>
>
>
>
>
> Dave Cross wrote:
>   
>> I'm running Fedora 9 on a Dell XPS M1330 laptop. I'm using one of the
>> earliest F9 kernel (2.6.25-14.fc9.i686.PAE) because I've been unable
>> to get a wireless connection with any later kernel that I've tried.
>>
>> But I'm having huge problems with this kernel too. At random times the
>> machine just freezes completely. The capslock and num-lock buttons
>> flash on and off but the only way out of it seems to be to turn the
>> system off and restart. Sometimes it can be an hour or so before the
>> problems occurs, but more often it's a few minutes. This obviously
>> makes the system pretty much unusable. I can use the system for as
>> long as Iike when I boot it into Vista.
>>
>> Has anyone else seen this behaviour? Or do you have any suggestions on
>> how I can help to investigate the problem?
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Dave...
>>
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Your also going to run into another problem if your running FC10, 
Firefox can't find some websites, fix is below. I use AT&T  
sbcglobal.net and have same problem.


On Mon, 2008-12-01 at 09:11 -0800, gary artim wrote:

> > seems there is a ipv6 slowdown with comcast's dns servers. if you use
> > firefox
> > you can stop ipv6 lookups by opening a tab in firefox and typing:
> > 
> > about:config
> > 
> > type:
> > network.dns.disableIPv6;false
> > set it to true and your dns lookups will take off.
>