[Novalug] computer hangs up
Beartooth
karhunhammas@Lserv.com
Wed Feb 27 14:53:14 EST 2008
On Wed, 27 Feb 2008, Ed James wrote:
> I've had this happen under two different circumstances. One is
> recent, when viewing Youtube videos for too long. My fix is to
> just close the browser after 20 minutes and resume - this ain't
> gonna help you two, of course. I suspect that the problem
> might just be that I use relatively old gear.
>
> The other problem was an earlier version of FC and was due to a
> funky USB driver, when I was using a USB keyboard and/or mouse.
> By the time I got to an FC6 install, the USB driver had "caught
> up" and worked fine. The timing was exactly the same as with
> Tim. With the earlier FC version, the problem never happened
> with non-USB devices. Error messages were also logged
> indicating USB driver problems.
I can't recall a hang in a long time; but when I was
getting them, I could sometimes still ssh into the hung machine
from others on the same router -- which I took to mean that it
wasn't the whole machine hung, but the X server. Bonnie, does
Ctrl-Alt-Backspace help?
> So my question is, are you both using USB input devices? I
> know Bonnie said "wireless", but ah ain't never done used
> wireless mice/keyboards, so I don't know if they use USB
> somewhere along the line.
>
> Of course, if Bonnie switched to using USB stuff now, then it's
> obviously not a USB driver issue (but might be an issue of a
> different driver).
All the wireless peripherals I've looked at when
shopping in a walmart have what look like USB plugs on them. Of
course, those may be only the cheap ones ...
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Beartooth Implacable, Curmudgeonly Codger Learning Linux
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supposing you care -- but you can tell who has a mind.
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