FC6 freezing

Rick Stevens rstevens at internap.com
Thu Apr 12 17:23:39 UTC 2007


On Thu, 2007-04-12 at 13:13 -0400, jim ruxton wrote:
> Ok Rick I just disabled it and I will see what happens. However the
> freezeup sometimes happens when I am using the machine also, not only
> when idle.

Please bottom post when possible, Jim.

You said this is a laptop.  What make and model and what video chipset
is it using ("lspci | grep VGA")?

> Jim
> On Wed, 2007-04-11 at 17:58 -0700, Rick Stevens wrote:
> > On Wed, 2007-04-11 at 15:48 -0400, jim ruxton wrote:
> > > Just wondering if anyone has any pointers for me. I was having trouble
> > > in FC5 with my system freezing so I decided to upgrade to FC6. For a few
> > > days everything seemed rock solid but now my system seems to freeze
> > > again approx. once a day. I haven't been able to gather anything useful
> > > from logs. Maybe the initial FC6 was ok but doing system upgrades has
> > > something unstable into the system again? I did a memory test and my RAM
> > > seems ok. Any thoughts as to how I can get to a solution of this. 
> > 
> > Just for giggles, try disabling the screen saver.  There are more than a
> > few that can cause issues with various X drivers--especially if you're
> > using the nVidia drivers.
> > 
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