Not a single freeze in nearly a week now since I removed pulseaudio.
*crosses fingers*

Uwe


On 28 October 2010 11:36, Conor Moran <email address hidden> wrote:
> I've posted a couple of times before...last time I was moving to PC Linux OS
> Anyway, I've be using that for a while but had exactly the same issues there
> i.e. random black-screen crashes
>
>
> For me, I've always suspected the video-card/intel video drivers were
> responsible.
> One reason is that I could reproduce the crash every time in both ubuntu and
> pc linux by running "Test Video Card"
>
> To try to fix the issue, I recently bought a cheap maxtor video card to put
> into the machine and try out. But I haven't been able to get that to work at
> all in my dell desktop.
> That got me tweaking the bios - BTW: I've got an old Pentium 4 Dell Optiplex
> GX260 Desktop
>
> In the bios is a setting "Onboard Video Buffer" which could be set as 1MB or
> 8MB. It was set to 1 and I changed it to 8MB.
> After that, I could successfully run the Video Card Test without fail so at
> this point I'm very hopeful my issue is sorted. I have never ever been able
> to do that and the symptom was always the same black screen crash.
>
> Info provided in case anyone else could benefit from this bios setting
> also.
>
> I have not had a crash since (couple of days) but it's too early to say
> anything for sure at this point. Will post again if I do have a crash.
>
> Conor
>
> P.S. I'm sticking with PC Linux OS for now as I find some of it's apps
> better after using it for a while, and I have a lot of new apps installed
> which I don't want to reinstall on a fresh ubuntu system.
>
> P. P.S. My video card details are (from command: lspci -vv)
> -----
> 00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation
> 82845G/GL[Brookdale-G]/GE Chipset Integrated Graphics Device (rev 01)
> (prog-if 00 [VGA controller])
>        Subsystem: Dell Device 0126
>        Control: I/O+ Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr-
> Stepping- SERR- FastB2B- DisINTx-
>        Status: Cap+ 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B+ ParErr- DEVSEL=fast >TAbort-
> <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR- INTx-
>        Latency: 0
>        Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 16
>        Region 0: Memory at e8000000 (32-bit, prefetchable) [size=128M]
>        Region 1: Memory at fe900000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=512K]
>        Expansion ROM at <unassigned> [disabled]
>        Capabilities: <access denied>
>        Kernel driver in use: i915
>        Kernel modules: i915, intelfb
> ----
>
> On Sun, Oct 24, 2010 at 9:02 PM, John Bruno
> <email address hidden>wrote:
>
>> My issue only freezes the mouse pointer (System is still stable and
>> responds to KB commands). I did remove Pulseaudio last night and
>> installed oss4, if anything the freeze came even quicker, I've since
>> gone back to pulseaudio.
>>
>> For what it's worth, I leave my system running all night playing either
>> Video or MP3's and as long as the mouse is not moved, it never freezes.
>> I'm basically at my whits end (Mouse #2 just froze, switching to usb
>> mouse #3).
>>
>> If I can't find a solution soon I'm going to try 2.6.31RT Kernel.
>>
>> --
>> Ubuntu 10.04 random freezes
>> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/585765
>> You received this bug notification because you are a direct subscriber
>> of the bug.
>>
>> Status in The Linux Kernel: New
>> Status in “linux” package in Ubuntu: Confirmed
>> Status in “xorg-server” package in Ubuntu: Confirmed
>>
>> Bug description:
>> Hello,
>>
>> on my new laptop, a HP ProBook 6440b (with Core i5 and a plain Intel
>> Chipset, 4GB RAM) I get randomly freezes of the whole system. I can't
>> reproduce that, what means I don't know a aplication or usage of the system
>> making it freeze. sometimes I have uptimes of a day, without freeze and
>> sometimes it freezes right after booting the system.
>>
>> I found out, that sometimes the MagicSysRQ (R-E-I-S-U-B) works and let me
>> shut down the system, sometimes not. I don't know what makes that
>> difference. In the system log I can't find any unusual entries. But I foun
>> that the system log is still runing, so shuting down the wifi with the
>> notebooks hardware switch for example is logged. Also the Wifi network
>> connection to my router is not interrupted.
>>
>> ProblemType: Bug
>> DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04
>> Package: linux-image-2.6.32-22-generic 2.6.32-22.33
>> Regression: No
>> Reproducible: No
>> ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.32-22.33-generic 2.6.32.11+drm33.2
>> Uname: Linux 2.6.32-22-generic x86_64
>> AlsaVersion: Advanced Linux Sound Architecture Driver Version 1.0.21.
>> Architecture: amd64
>> ArecordDevices:
>>  **** List of CAPTURE Hardware Devices ****
>>  card 0: Intel [HDA Intel], device 0: STAC92xx Analog [STAC92xx Analog]
>>   Subdevices: 2/2
>>   Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
>>   Subdevice #1: subdevice #1
>> AudioDevicesInUse:
>>  USER        PID ACCESS COMMAND
>>  /dev/snd/controlC0:  florian    1689 F.... pulseaudio
>> CRDA: Error: [Errno 2] No such file or directory
>> Card0.Amixer.info:
>>  Card hw:0 'Intel'/'HDA Intel at 0xd4900000 irq 17'
>>   Mixer name   : 'Intel G45 DEVIBX'
>>   Components   : 'HDA:111d7603,103c1722,00100202
>> HDA:11c11040,103c3066,00100200 HDA:80862804,80860101,00100000'
>>   Controls      : 23
>>   Simple ctrls  : 14
>> Date: Wed May 26 11:03:07 2010
>> EcryptfsInUse: Yes
>> Frequency: Once a day.
>> HibernationDevice: RESUME=UUID=24088f3d-7be1-4efd-a05a-d1fac42086df
>> InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.04 LTS "Lucid Lynx" - Release amd64 (20100429)
>> MachineType: Hewlett-Packard HP ProBook 6440b
>> ProcCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.32-22-generic
>> root=UUID=ac1bccdd-e231-45c3-bfde-991ae9549f0f ro quiet splash
>> ProcEnviron:
>>  LANG=de_DE.utf8
>>  SHELL=/bin/bash
>> RelatedPackageVersions: linux-firmware 1.34
>> SourcePackage: linux
>> dmi.bios.date: 01/27/2010
>> dmi.bios.vendor: Hewlett-Packard
>> dmi.bios.version: 68CDD Ver. F.04
>> dmi.board.name: 1722
>> dmi.board.vendor: Hewlett-Packard
>> dmi.board.version: KBC Version 29.2B
>> dmi.chassis.type: 10
>> dmi.chassis.vendor: Hewlett-Packard
>> dmi.modalias:
>> dmi:bvnHewlett-Packard:bvr68CDDVer.F.04:bd01/27/2010:svnHewlett-Packard:pnHPProBook6440b:pvr:rvnHewlett-Packard:rn1722:rvrKBCVersion29.2B:cvnHewlett-Packard:ct10:cvr:
>> dmi.product.name: HP ProBook 6440b
>> dmi.sys.vendor: Hewlett-Packard
>>
>> To unsubscribe from this bug, go to:
>> https://bugs.launchpad.net/linux/+bug/585765/+subscribe
>>
>
> --
> Ubuntu 10.04 random freezes
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/585765
> You received this bug notification because you are a direct subscriber
> of a duplicate bug (578457).
>
> Status in The Linux Kernel: New
> Status in “linux” package in Ubuntu: Confirmed
> Status in “xorg-server” package in Ubuntu: Confirmed
>
> Bug description:
> Hello,
>
> on my new laptop, a HP ProBook 6440b (with Core i5 and a plain Intel Chipset, 4GB RAM) I get randomly freezes of the whole system. I can't reproduce that, what means I don't know a aplication or usage of the system making it freeze. sometimes I have uptimes of a day, without freeze and sometimes it freezes right after booting the system.
>
> I found out, that sometimes the MagicSysRQ (R-E-I-S-U-B) works and let me shut down the system, sometimes not. I don't know what makes that difference. In the system log I can't find any unusual entries. But I foun that the system log is still runing, so shuting down the wifi with the notebooks hardware switch for example is logged. Also the Wifi network connection to my router is not interrupted.
>
> ProblemType: Bug
> DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04
> Package: linux-image-2.6.32-22-generic 2.6.32-22.33
> Regression: No
> Reproducible: No
> ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.32-22.33-generic 2.6.32.11+drm33.2
> Uname: Linux 2.6.32-22-generic x86_64
> AlsaVersion: Advanced Linux Sound Architecture Driver Version 1.0.21.
> Architecture: amd64
> ArecordDevices:
>  **** List of CAPTURE Hardware Devices ****
>  card 0: Intel [HDA Intel], device 0: STAC92xx Analog [STAC92xx Analog]
>   Subdevices: 2/2
>   Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
>   Subdevice #1: subdevice #1
> AudioDevicesInUse:
>  USER        PID ACCESS COMMAND
>  /dev/snd/controlC0:  florian    1689 F.... pulseaudio
> CRDA: Error: [Errno 2] No such file or directory
> Card0.Amixer.info:
>  Card hw:0 'Intel'/'HDA Intel at 0xd4900000 irq 17'
>   Mixer name   : 'Intel G45 DEVIBX'
>   Components   : 'HDA:111d7603,103c1722,00100202 HDA:11c11040,103c3066,00100200 HDA:80862804,80860101,00100000'
>   Controls      : 23
>   Simple ctrls  : 14
> Date: Wed May 26 11:03:07 2010
> EcryptfsInUse: Yes
> Frequency: Once a day.
> HibernationDevice: RESUME=UUID=24088f3d-7be1-4efd-a05a-d1fac42086df
> InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.04 LTS "Lucid Lynx" - Release amd64 (20100429)
> MachineType: Hewlett-Packard HP ProBook 6440b
> ProcCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.32-22-generic root=UUID=ac1bccdd-e231-45c3-bfde-991ae9549f0f ro quiet splash
> ProcEnviron:
>  LANG=de_DE.utf8
>  SHELL=/bin/bash
> RelatedPackageVersions: linux-firmware 1.34
> SourcePackage: linux
> dmi.bios.date: 01/27/2010
> dmi.bios.vendor: Hewlett-Packard
> dmi.bios.version: 68CDD Ver. F.04
> dmi.board.name: 1722
> dmi.board.vendor: Hewlett-Packard
> dmi.board.version: KBC Version 29.2B
> dmi.chassis.type: 10
> dmi.chassis.vendor: Hewlett-Packard
> dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnHewlett-Packard:bvr68CDDVer.F.04:bd01/27/2010:svnHewlett-Packard:pnHPProBook6440b:pvr:rvnHewlett-Packard:rn1722:rvrKBCVersion29.2B:cvnHewlett-Packard:ct10:cvr:
> dmi.product.name: HP ProBook 6440b
> dmi.sys.vendor: Hewlett-Packard
>
> To unsubscribe from this bug, go to:
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/linux/+bug/585765/+subscribe
>