How to determine cause of computer freezing.

[Antonio Olivares]

--- On Wed, 12/10/08, Daniele Orlando <d.orlando.0 at gmail.com> wrote:

> From: Daniele Orlando <d.orlando.0 at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: How to determine cause of computer freezing.
> To: olivares14031 at yahoo.com, "Community assistance, encouragement, and advice for using Fedora." <fedora-list at redhat.com>
> Date: Wednesday, December 10, 2008, 8:13 AM
> What's your video card?
> 
> On Wed, Dec 10, 2008 at 14:12, Antonio Olivares
> <olivares14031 at yahoo.com> wrote:
> > Dear fellow fedora users,
> >
> > I thought I had found a solution to a computer Asus
> Motherboard, 1.25/1.5 GB RAM, AMD 64 Dual core processor,
> freezing with kernel 2.6.27.5-117.fc10.x86_64.  I boot it
> with acpi=off parameter and it works mostly.  Yesterday, I
> connected an external usb modem to connect to the internet. 
> For about a minute or two the machine continued to work, but
> then it froze.  I booted two more times only to find out the
> machine froze again :(
> >
> > when I ran dmesg, I saw the errors that are believed
> to be Xorg's fault:
> >
> > pci 0000:01:05.0: HDMI Type A-1: EDID invalid.
> > [drm:edid_is_valid] *ERROR* Raw EDID:
> > <3>a0 00 a0 00 ff ff ff 00 5a 63 05 f5 01 01 01
> 01
> > ........Zc......
> > <3>07 0c 01 03 1d 20 18 be 2b 2e 12 a5 51 46 98
> 25
> > ..... ..+...QF.%
> > <3>0f 48 4f ff ff 80 61 4f 31 59 45 59 61 59 71
> 4f
> > .HO...aO1YEYaYqO
> > <3>81 40 81 80 81 8f c3 1e 00 20 41 00 20 30 10
> 60
> > . at ....... A. 0.`
> > <3>13 00 36 e6 10 00 00 1e 00 00 00 ff 00 32 33
> 4b
> > ..6..........23K
> > <3>30 32 30 37 30 30 32 39 38 0a 00 00 00 fd 00
> 32
> > 020700298......2
> > <3>b4 1e 56 0f 00 0a 20 20 20 20 20 20 00 00 00
> fc
> > ..V...      ....
> > <3>00 47 37 35 66 2d 32 0a 20 20 20 20 20 20 00
> 23
> > .G75f-2.      .#
> > pci 0000:01:05.0: VGA-1: EDID invalid.
> > [drm:edid_is_valid] *ERROR* Raw EDID:
> >>00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
> > ................
> > <3>00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
> 00
> > ................
> > <3>00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
> 00
> > ................
> > <3>00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
> 00
> > ................
> > <3>00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
> 00
> > ................
> > <3>00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
> 00
> >  ................
> > <3>00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
> 00
> >  ................
> > <3>00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
> 00
> > ................
> >
> >
> > Is there a way of booting like in debug mode, to see
> what causes all these problems.  I boot slax linux live cd,
> and I can surf the net, I can do all the things that I
> can't with Fedora without any problems not even the Xorg
> errors.  Advice/Suggestions/Comments are very much
> appreciated and welcomed.
> >
> >
> > Regards,
> >
> >
> > Antonio
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > --

01:05.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc RS690 [Radeon X1200 Series]

Kernel oops here:

http://www.kerneloops.org/submitresult.php?number=105041

blacklisted r8169 kernel module

Thanks,

Antonio