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    Hello all.

    I will try to include as much information as I can about my problem, but I'm afraid I don't have much in the way of it owning the nature of the problem itself. I don't even know if this is the right place to report this, but if someone points me in the right direction I will post there.

    I have a new Toshiba Satellite C665D-S5200. I first installed Ubuntu 10.04 LTS 64-bit version on it, but it didn't recognize my build-in wireless or Ethernet. *sigh* So I ended up downloading Super OS (11.04 64 bit amd) and installing via USB. It installed alright and found all my hardware without a hitch, even the AMD video card. I am dual-booting with Windows 7.

    My problem is that Ubuntu has started to outright freeze. The first time was last night. I was playing a game on Facebook using Chrome, and it was a total lock-up. I had to hot-boot my machine. I rebooted into Ubuntu again, went back to Facebook to the game (again using Chrome), and it froze again. I figured it might be Chrome doing it, so I went into Win7 and fished my game then shutdown for the night.

    Today I decided to submit a profile using Ubuntu's built-in system testing program. While doing that I was setting up my Ubuntu One account, and again my machine totally froze. Hot-booted and went back into Ubuntu to log into this forum, and when I clicked the link to take me here form the Ubuntu homepage, it froze yet again. I wasn't doing anything else at the time.

    I have no problems with my laptop using Win7, so I don't think the freezes are hardware related. If they where, I'd return this thing in a heartbeat. It just seems to be Ubuntu. I could re-install of course, but I want to try and trouble shoot the problem first and see if it's a bug with Ubuntu that might as of yet be unknown. This laptop hasn't been on the market for a long time, and I don't think there are many people with my model using Ubuntu.

    Here is the webpage including my laptop's specs:
    http://us.toshiba.com/computers/lapt...0/C655D-S5200/

    More detailed information on my hardware gathered with Belarc Advisor:

    *System Model:
    TOSHIBA Satellite C655D PSC0YU-018001
    System Serial Number: 5B013665Q
    Enclosure Type: Notebook

    *Processor:
    1000 megahertz AMD C-50
    No memory cache
    64-bit ready
    Multi-core (2 total)
    Not hyper-threaded

    *Main Circuit Board:
    Board: TOSHIBA Portable PC Base Board Version
    BIOS: Insyde Corp. 1.40 02/18/2011

    *Drives:
    286.27 Gigabytes Usable Hard Drive Capacity
    183.60 Gigabytes Hard Drive Free Space

    MATSHITA DVD-RAM UJ8A0AS SATA CdRom Device [Optical drive]

    TOSHIBA MK3265GSXN [Hard drive] (320.07 GB) -- drive 0, s/n 31JZBH1NB, rev GH101M, SMART Status: Healthy

    *Memory Modules
    2664 Megabytes Usable Installed Memory
    (It's DD3, 3 GB installed)

    *Controllers:
    AMD SATA Controller

    *Display
    AMD Radeon HD 6250 Graphics [Display adapter]
    LGD LP156WH2-TLAA [Monitor] (15.3"vis)

    *Bus Adapters
    A2R3PVSM IDE Controller
    Standard Enhanced PCI to USB Host Controller (3x)
    Standard OpenHCD USB Host Controller (3x)

    *Multimedia
    Conexant SmartAudio HD

    *Communications
    Atheros AR8152/8158 PCI-E Fast Ethernet Controller (NDIS 6.20)
    primary Auto IP Address: 192.168.1.4 / 24
    Gateway: 192.168.1.1
    Dhcp Server: 192.168.1.1
    Physical Address: 00:26:6C:BA:CF:CC
    Connection Speed: 100 Mbps

    Realtek RTL8188CE Wireless LAN 802.11n PCI-E NIC
    Auto IP Address: 192.168.1.12 / 24
    Gateway: 192.168.1.1
    Dhcp Server: 192.168.1.1
    Physical Address: 68:A3:C4:8A:5A:B9
    Connection Speed: 54 Mbps
    Teredo Tunneling Pseudo-Interface

    *Other Devices
    Microsoft AC Adapter
    Microsoft ACPI-Compliant Control Method Battery
    Microsoft Composite Battery
    HID-compliant consumer control device
    HID-compliant device (2x)
    USB Input Device (2x)
    TOSHIBA Web Camera
    Standard PS/2 Keyboard
    ELAN PS/2 Port Touch-Pad [Mouse]
    HID-compliant mouse
    USB Composite Device (2x)
    USB Mass Storage Device
    USB Root Hub (6x)
    Generic volume shadow copy

    I didn't bother to include the software information, that's all Windows stuff, and took out the information for virtual drives and such, again Windows stuff.
    Last edited by MichaelYammer; October 10th, 2011 at 01:49 AM.

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    Re: Strange Ubuntu freezes

    Try to log in in the ubuntu classic session and see if the problem persists.

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    Re: Strange Ubuntu freezes

    I have been using Unity 2D on my 2 laptops for about 4 months with no problem. You can find it in synaptic.

    YMMV

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    Re: Strange Ubuntu freezes

    Thanks, but I am using Ubuntu Classic.

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    Re: Strange Ubuntu freezes

    Thanks, but I have tried Unity and frankly don't like it. The "Classic" Ubuntu Teo was talking about is Gnome, Super OS installs both Unity and Gnome.

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    Re: Strange Ubuntu freezes

    I have the exact problem as you mentioned above with the same machine. at the beginning 11.10 works fine then it totally gets freezed before logging in. then I decided to go for 10.04. Getting the wifi work is miserable but you can do it by installing wifi drivers(before doing that, you need also download build-essential from installing disk, remember usb installing is not working here) then you can make the wiki work.
    however. you will still face lots of problem as now i don't know how to make my microphone work.
    so what's yr situation now?

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    Re: Strange Ubuntu freezes

    Both my machines were crashing randomly. I removed the proprietary AMD Radeon HD___ graphics driver and the problem is gone.

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    Re: Strange Ubuntu freezes

    Quote Originally Posted by diablo465 View Post
    ... as now i don't know how to make my microphone work. so what's yr situation now?
    With Ubuntu 10.04.1 (Lucid Lynx) I occasionally have problems with the microphone just "going away" for no apparent reason. Sometimes it can be fixed by opening the ALSA mixer, where I find the microphone has been muted by some rogue process. Other times I need to reboot the machine and the microphone functionality mysteriously reappears without doing anything else at all. (My Shuttle XPC actually has two microphone inputs — one on the back of the box and one on the front, and they have separate controls in the mixer.)
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    Re: Strange Ubuntu freezes

    Hello, sometimes I had this problem to, and then I was giving:
    Ctrl+Alt+F1
    Ctrl+Alt+F7
    and the problem went away....
    See if this temporary solution matches you.

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