Fedora 7 freezes two or three times per day

[Robin Laing]

Rogue wrote:
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> Dawning Sky wrote:
>> On 6/21/07, William Case <billlinux at rogers.com> wrote:
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>> I'm experiencing this freeze too.  I've disabled irqbalance, put
>> "noirqbalance" in the kernel parameters, removed compiz.  But my F7
>> system still freezes a few times a day.
>>
>> It appears related to the desktop environment.  I can leave it there
>> for weeks, with server processes running.  But if I sit there and
>> using the desktop environment, it then freezes frequently.  Nothing in
>> the log files.
>>
>> I'm running F7 x86_64, with AMD X2 and the latest nVidia driver.  I've
>> run memtest for hours without errors.  The kernel version is
>> 2.6.21-1.3228.fc7.
>>
>> DS
>>
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> Same here. I have these random freezes on my laptop and since I do not
> have another m/c to access it, I am completely hosed :-(
> 
> The mouse & keyboard do not respond. I wanted to use compiz but then the
> system would freeze more often.
> 
> I believe the problem is strongly related to the graphics driver. I have
> a ATI M300 => radeon300 driver.
> 
> During the recent freezes, the only application that could have caused
> an issue was Thunderbird's notification mechanism (which brings up a popup)
> 
> This behavior is definitely not acceptable. But what frustrates me the
> most is the absence of any logs!!!! (Arghhh!!) Any hope of logging a bug
> so that developers could fix the issue is lost.
> 
> Does any one know how I could capture these error messages? What are the
> parameters to generate logs for the graphics drivers?
> 
> thanks,
> Rogue
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 From what I have gathered from different forums and bug lists is that 
this is not directly a driver issue but an issue between the driver and 
kernel.  It seems to occur with different video drivers.

On one forum, it was reported by someone that they compiled their own 
kernel without CFS support and all their freezups were gone.

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