Ubuntu 9.10 freezes after 10-20 mins.

[aris.petridis]

Found this in the ubuntu bugs (launchpad):

I found a workaround to this issue for those of you who have an intel graphic card (which is what HP Pavillion PCs come with).
you must revert to an older version of the graphic card driver by following these instructions:
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ReinhardTart...telDriverTo2.4
The instructions were intended for Jaunty but they also work for 9.10
Of course, since the system hangs, you need to start in recovery mode to run those instruction from the command line.

Seems to be a problem that a lot of people with Intel graphics chipsets are having. Will try it this evening when I get home. Hope it helps everyone.


A.

[gbrethen]

how about issues with the ati graphics cards? does it work without the proprietary driver? Has anyone had success with ati graphics/compiz on 9.10? without the kernel freezes?

[to3000]

i tried installing nvidia-kernel-common

its worked so far

[gbrethen]

ok, I just did a fresh install of ubuntu 9.10 again. I did not install the proprietary ati driver, and still the system froze (kernel panic
) caps lock blinks. I had to do a hard reboot. The only thing I had done was open firefox to browse internet when it froze!

Any ideas?

Toshiba A505-S6965, ATI Mobility Radeon HD 4570, Intel Core 2 duo P7350

[aris.petridis]

The procedure described in the link I've pasted in my previous comment worked for me! No more freezes!

Hope it works for other people too.

A.

[razorxpress]

Same problem here. I installed fresh copy of ubuntu 9.10 on intel 845 with cpuinfo

vendor_id : GenuineIntel
cpu family : 15
model : 2
model name : Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 2.40GHz
stepping : 9
cpu MHz : 2399.413
cache size : 512 KB
MemTotal: 2053640 kB
MemFree: 1075600 kB

When i run ubuntu for some time it freezes. There is no specific software that would cause that, because on any instance it would freeze. Sometimes even booting. The frequency of freezing was too high so i removed ubuntu-desktop and installed kubunt-desktop. After that the frequency has removed by greater extent, but still there are some instances of freezing. I previously submited a problem from totem but i don't know what is causing the freezing. This instance of kubuntu does not contain any application from gnome.

[openBA]

very similar problem here. Small apps are working, big one, like Firefox not.

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.p...04#post8278204

Thinkpad R51 ATI Radeon M 9000 RV250

As it freezes, it produces very big log file, so even "ubuntu-bug" fail forwarding it.

[QueenZ]

Same problem here. My keyboard and mouse freezes after a while.. This is hapening all over the qorld in all new versions of linux!

[sgelsot]

Found this in the ubuntu bugs (launchpad):

I found a workaround to this issue for those of you who have an intel graphic card (which is what HP Pavillion PCs come with).
you must revert to an older version of the graphic card driver by following these instructions:
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ReinhardTart...telDriverTo2.4
The instructions were intended for Jaunty but they also work for 9.10
Of course, since the system hangs, you need to start in recovery mode to run those instruction from the command line.

Seems to be a problem that a lot of people with Intel graphics chipsets are having. Will try it this evening when I get home. Hope it helps everyone.


A.

That was it for me thanks very much OP!

[gbrethen]

any updates for people using ati drivers? or is there an updated kernel?