Computer locks up

[Michael John Ritter]

Ubuntu error report:

I am running Ubuntu v6.06 LTS. I just have to congratuations on a wonderful operating system. I just can't get enough of it - however I have spotted an error.

The screen saver regularly crashes the computer. It locks up the screen, no activity from the screen saver and the mouse pointer freezes. I have to reset and reboot.

It seems to have a problem when making selection between screensavers. This occurs when selecting the screen saver you want in System->Prefrences->Screensaver. I also can't run random screensaver selection.

I have a Gigabyte K8 Triton GA-K8VM800M mother board (rev 2) with 512MB of ram and an AMD Sempron 2.8GHz CPU. The whole computer is not that old (two months) and I haven't noticed any hardware errors.

It didn't crash with the previous version 5 of Ubuntu.

Mike Ritter.
Adelaide, South Australia, Australia.
email:<email address hidden>
Mobile phone [phone]

[Jonathan Kyle Mitchell (kmitch87-deactivatedaccount)]

Thanks for the bug report Mike.

Do you know what video card is on your computer?
From what you are describing, it sounds like your video card may not be setup properly. Also, was this experienced on a clean install of dapper, or did you dist-upgrade from breezy?

[Jonathan Kyle Mitchell (kmitch87-deactivatedaccount)]

Needs more info on specific video setup that caused the bug.

[Michael John Ritter (rob-n-val)]

Dear kmitch,

I have a GA-K8VM800M (rev 2.0) mother board by Gigabyte and a built in VIA
K8M800 Chipset for the on board VGA.

Gigabyte technology pty ltd is at tw.giga-byte.com can you help me with my
set up?

Mike Ritter.

>From: kmitch <email address hidden>
>Reply-To: Bug 62093 <email address hidden>
>To: <email address hidden>
>Subject: [Bug 62093] Re: Computer locks up
>Date: Sun, 24 Sep 2006 07:26:09 -0000
>
>Thanks for the bug report Mike.
>
>Do you know what video card is on your computer?
> >From what you are describing, it sounds like your video card may not be
>setup properly. Also, was this experienced on a clean install of dapper,
>or did you dist-upgrade from breezy?
>
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>Computer locks up
>https://launchpad.net/bugs/62093

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[Jonathan Kyle Mitchell (kmitch87-deactivatedaccount)]

OK Mike, I think I have found the problem. After some Googling and searching on Launchpad, it seems that the VIA K8M800 chipset doesn't want to play nice with the provided VIA video driver. This is more than likely caused by VIA's reluctance to provide specs of the chipset to open source developers. In that regard, there is really nothing anyone can do about it.

However, it does seem you aren't the only one with these problems. Bugs #57062 and #43154 also document problems with this VIA chipset. There is also an upstream bug filed on freedesktop.org.

Sorry you had such rotten luck, hopefully a fix will be resolved soon.

[Jonathan Kyle Mitchell (kmitch87-deactivatedaccount)]

Changed affected packages to reflect new evidence from bug #43154 and bug #57062

[Jonathan Kyle Mitchell (kmitch87-deactivatedaccount)]

Hey Mike, its me again.

You've probably seen that there are multiple bug reports for this issue with the K8M800 VIA chipset. To make life easier for the Ubuntu bug squashers, I'm going to mark this report as a duplicate of bug #43154. If you like, you can stay subscribed to that bug for any signs of progress. Hope you can get the issue resolved soon.

Cheers and Good Luck!!!

[Michael John Ritter (rob-n-val)]

Dear Kyle,

Thanks for your response I hope there something that can b done in the
future.

Mike Ritter.

>From: Kyle Mitchell <email address hidden>
>Reply-To: Bug 62093 <email address hidden>
>To: <email address hidden>
>Subject: [Bug 62093] Re: Computer locks up
>Date: Tue, 26 Sep 2006 03:17:48 -0000
>
>OK Mike, I think I have found the problem. After some Googling and
>searching on Launchpad, it seems that the VIA K8M800 chipset doesn't
>want to play nice with the provided VIA video driver. This is more than
>likely caused by VIA's reluctance to provide specs of the chipset to
>open source developers. In that regard, there is really nothing anyone
>can do about it.
>
>However, it does seem you aren't the only one with these problems. Bugs
>#57062 and #43154 also document problems with this VIA chipset. There
>is also an upstream bug filed on freedesktop.org.
>
>Sorry you had such rotten luck, hopefully a fix will be resolved soon.
>
>--
>Computer locks up
>https://launchpad.net/bugs/62093

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[Gaurish Sharma (gslive)]

i just wanted to know whether this bug will be fixed in next release or not

On 9/27/06, Mike2005 <email address hidden> wrote:
>
> *** This bug is a duplicate of bug 43154 ***
>
> Dear Kyle,
>
> Thanks for your response I hope there something that can b done in the
> future.
>
> Mike Ritter.
>
>
> >From: Kyle Mitchell <email address hidden>
> >Reply-To: Bug 62093 <email address hidden>
> >To: <email address hidden>
> >Subject: [Bug 62093] Re: Computer locks up
> >Date: Tue, 26 Sep 2006 03:17:48 -0000
> >
> >OK Mike, I think I have found the problem. After some Googling and
> >searching on Launchpad, it seems that the VIA K8M800 chipset doesn't
> >want to play nice with the provided VIA video driver. This is more than
> >likely caused by VIA's reluctance to provide specs of the chipset to
> >open source developers. In that regard, there is really nothing anyone
> >can do about it.
> >
> >However, it does seem you aren't the only one with these problems. Bugs
> >#57062 and #43154 also document problems with this VIA chipset. There
> >is also an upstream bug filed on freedesktop.org.
> >
> >Sorry you had such rotten luck, hopefully a fix will be resolved soon.
> >
> >--
> >Computer locks up
> >https://launchpad.net/bugs/62093
>
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