Laptop freezing constantly [Fixed]

Infected · n00b Joined: 15 Jan 2004 Posts: 24 Location: 127.0.0.1

I have a Fujitsu Siemens Celsius Mobile H laptop and have some strange issues with it.

When i run as a normal user it locks up in X at random times.
While running it as root it has not locked up/freezed yet.
And my only option is to do a hard reboot.

All the logs and such stop when the computer freezes, no errors, no warnings... all seems fine.

It has never frozen in the console yet.

I have tried every thinkable solution and now im lost...
- With and without APM or ACPI, same result.
- With noapic and nolapic to the kernel boot options give same results.
- Tried every possible Nvidia driver in portage and the ones from Nvidia.com.
- Tried with opengl-update nvidia and opengl-opdate xfree.
- Tried with Agpgart on off and to use the one in the driver.
- Tried with the standart xfree nv and vesa driver, same result.
- Tested with 2.4.22gentoo, 2.4.23vanilla, 2.6.1gentoo.
- Tried with and without mtrr.
- Checked the temerature and memory all OK.
- Cheked the disk and its fine (probably corrupted and fubar'ed because of all the hard reboots thought

)

The most annoying part of this is that this is actually a "sertified linux laptop (redhat and suse thought)" and shoud work as a charm.

Any help would be greatly apprecieated!

masseya · Posted: Wed Jan 28, 2004 4:25 pm Post subject:

What version of X are you using? What window manager / desktop environment are you using?
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Infected · n00b Joined: 15 Jan 2004 Posts: 24 Location: 127.0.0.1

I took a fresh install now, to see if the problem continiues.
Got a couple of kernel panics (due to a corrupted, non fixable harddrive).
Guess it dont liked those hard reboots

Lets hope this fixes the issue.

Infected · n00b Joined: 15 Jan 2004 Posts: 24 Location: 127.0.0.1

Same results after reinstall... :evil:

masseya · Posted: Thu Jan 29, 2004 4:46 pm Post subject:

DarwinianCoeus · Posted: Thu Jan 29, 2004 11:36 pm Post subject: asd

this is just a shot in the dark, but my laptop would lock up after just a couple minutes when I had either Fast Writes or SBA on. check /proc/agp/driver/nvidia/status or something of the like
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Infected · n00b Joined: 15 Jan 2004 Posts: 24 Location: 127.0.0.1

After meddling for some time with the nvidia driver and the agpgart it seems stable, it have atleast not freezed until now.

What i did was disable everything related to agp and drm in the kernel, disabled apm, and used acpi instead (seems like it got some apm issues too, if those are related i dont know).
Then i enabled mtrr, because the laptop would even freeze in the console with this disabled.
SBA and fastwrites are disabled since the card does not support this (quadro card).
Using the nolapic in the kernel boot options would also cause instability (??) so i removed this too.
Then i removed agp support from the driver (adding the option "nvagp" "0") to the xfree config file.
Really seems like the agp/gxf card on this model is fubar'ed.

And well see how it goes, not the firs time i thougt i got it stable, but now it atleast wakes up if it goes to sleep

Guess i could write a howto about this laptop, but dont think anyone would care about this specific model.

Thanks for the help!

masseya · Posted: Fri Jan 30, 2004 6:11 pm Post subject:

Infected · n00b Joined: 15 Jan 2004 Posts: 24 Location: 127.0.0.1

Well youre right, if someone had wrote a litte line or two about it, i might not have used almost a month to get it stable

The guides about it is related to suse, and they described basically nothing useful.

I'll write a litte howto about it

, see if i can get it done by the end of the weekend.