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Also I forgot to mention, but disabling all cashing options for my CPU in BIOS (I did that for memtest+, as I suspected these freezes at first be caused by memory) did make my Xubuntu work little...

ASUS
I read few articles here from people using ASUS laptops and they suppose to work just great. Right now I am thinking of buying it unless the ASUS hardware I ordered will also be freezing my...

I have AMD CPU, Athlon XP 2.5Ghz and even if it is only 32bit CPU I am also having these issues. Corruption occurs when downloading files into ext3 partition, so even a simple software update can...

There is always Gaim program constantly looking for changes on hard drives for file browsers and other programs. It is run as service, but it is not in the list of services in Ubuntu. One can easily...

I am dumping VIA motherboard for ASUS one. I think this should clear this freezing issue I hope. VIA motherboard generally sucks for Linux.

PS.

1. "highres=off nohz=off irqpoll" method prolongs...

Also I did right now a bug report at
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/117651/
I hope I did this bug report in its right place.

My freezes occured started in april, when I was doing an update of software on my Fiesty, so these freezes came during april. Since then I went over to Hardy and I am waiting for official patch to...

On some hardware configurations Linux hate ext3 file system. It's the kernel bug. Even Linus Thorvald knows about it last few years and still did nothing about it.
...

1. Simple DirectMedia Layer (SDML) (1.2.13-1ubuntu1):

inflicts freezes in all games (not only 3d games but also 2d games too)

inflicts freezes in most audio/visual applications with vlc,...

My guess you didn't do
"sudo dpkg --purge vlc" alternatively "sudo dpkg --force-all --purge vlc"
before going berserk at these directories and I hope you did use
"sudo rm -rf (these directories)"...

I had similiar experiences with nvidia binary driver. Installing nvidia-settings solved my issues with display. As I noticed this tool edited xorg.conf file and added entire entries for my nvidia...

If you run "sudo blkid" and your hard drive doesn't shows up there, then you must look for and install a driver for it. See the manufacturer home page for Linux drives for their hard drive. They may...

You may want to check first
http://vip.asus.com/forum/topic.aspx?board_id=1&SLanguage=en-us
,as these issues just maybe are not exactly Ubuntu bound.

Ok. Here is an update. I had installed on Xubuntu 8.04.1 only these applications:
vlc
firefox
openarena

I removed every other application and most of system packages (including with basing...

Ok. Here is an update. I had installed on Xubuntu 8.04.1 only these applications:
vlc
firefox
openarena
I removed every other application and most of system packages.
I had still freezes with...

Hi!

I have exactly the same freezes due the same bug, although I am on Xubuntu 8.04 (Hardy) myself. I found out that you can play for extended periods of time on Hardy after purging...

Did you try downgrading libpng to an earlier version? Usually I get downgraded packages from "http://packages.ubuntu.com/".

Did you try downgrading libsdl packages?

Did you try installing more...

Well, networking is a bitch. After small trick with editing crontab some stability was achieved for few days and then freezes returned. The bug program must have detected crontab is not servings its...

You open terminal and type there "mount". It should list all your partitions and their mount points. Look for line with your "/media/disk" in it and then you can read what file system, uuid and...

Until I did an update on my software on my Xubuntu 7.04 last april I had no issues with freezes on my Xubuntu 7.04. After freezes started occurring on my Xubuntu 7.04 starting from may I switched to...

Is there DRM package on Ubuntu? How to uninstall it?
I just got last two months horrific issues with freezes.
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=840686
I just succeeded removing them....

Sorry to hear that.

I use fat32 file system for my file storage purposes. If something doesn't work on exotic journaling systems, then I keep a copy of my configuration (like markings from...

To start your Ubuntu you must check following things when booting up with livecd.

"/etc/fstab" for mounting issues (uuid could change! or "sudo blkid" to reference as the device numbering could...

I had problem like that myself. I solved it. You can read more about in:
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=840686
It is not fault of graphic driver even if it extremely graphic centric...

Try doing "sudo chmod 777 <mount point directory>" on the directory in Ubuntu you are mounting these hard drives on. If it is just privilege issue that is, then it should be solved this way.