FC6 freezing

jim ruxton cinetron at passport.ca
Thu Apr 12 18:15:19 UTC 2007


> > > 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.
> > 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.
> 

> 
> You said this is a laptop.  What make and model and what video chipset
> is it using ("lspci | grep VGA")?
It is an HP Pavillion ZD7000 chip info. is below.
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation NV31M [GeForce FX
Go5600] (rev a1)
Thanks,
Jim





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