[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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