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gene wrote:
> Hi, ran into a similar problem: My desktop display froze and both keyboard and mouse did not work. I haven't checked if my webserver was running/available, since I prematurely powered off the pc. 
> My issue seems to be a little different from those reported though. The freeze has never occurred  before since my upgrade to Lucid more than a week ago. The kernel 
> uname -a: Linux  2.6.32-22-generic #36-Ubuntu SMP Thu Jun 3 19:31:57 UTC 2010 x86_64 GNU/Linux
> has been run for about a couple days before it happened.
> I will continue using this very kernel (I do not want to try the ppa fix yet, since this intel  machine used to be very effective before). After a next freeze I will try to grab some earlier/later versions of the kernel from ppa/kernel
> Here are some specs:
> sudo lshw: lspci 
> 00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation 82945G/GZ/P/PL Memory Controller Hub (rev 02)
> 00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82945G/GZ/P/PL PCI Express Root Port (rev 02)
> 00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation 82945G/GZ Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 02)
> 00:02.1 Display controller: Intel Corporation 82945G/GZ Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 02)
> 00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation N10/ICH 7 Family High Definition Audio Controller (rev 01)
> 00:1c.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation N10/ICH 7 Family PCI Express Port 1 (rev 01)
> 00:1d.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation N10/ICH7 Family USB UHCI Controller #1 (rev 01)
> 00:1d.1 USB Controller: Intel Corporation N10/ICH 7 Family USB UHCI Controller #2 (rev 01)
> 00:1d.2 USB Controller: Intel Corporation N10/ICH 7 Family USB UHCI Controller #3 (rev 01)
> 00:1d.3 USB Controller: Intel Corporation N10/ICH 7 Family USB UHCI Controller #4 (rev 01)
> 00:1d.7 USB Controller: Intel Corporation N10/ICH 7 Family USB2 EHCI Controller (rev 01)
> 00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801 PCI Bridge (rev e1)
> 00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation 82801GB/GR (ICH7 Family) LPC Interface Bridge (rev 01)
> 00:1f.1 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) IDE Controller (rev 01)
> 00:1f.2 IDE interface: Intel Corporation N10/ICH7 Family SATA IDE Controller (rev 01)
> 00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corporation N10/ICH 7 Family SMBus Controller (rev 01)
> 03:03.0 Modem: Intel Corporation FA82537EP 56K V.92 Data/Fax Modem PCI (rev 04)
> 03:08.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation N10/ICH 7 Family LAN Controller (rev 01)
>
> And
>
>  description: Mini Tower Computer
>     product: Dell DM051
>     vendor: Dell Inc.
>     serial: B4KPL81
>     width: 64 bits
>     capabilities: smbios-2.3 dmi-2.3 vsyscall64 vsyscall32
> ..........................
> description: VGA compatible controller
>              product: 82945G/GZ Integrated Graphics Controller
>              vendor: Intel Corporation
>              physical id: 2
>              bus info: pci@0000:00:02.0
>              version: 02
>              width: 32 bits
>              clock: 33MHz
>              capabilities: msi pm bus_master cap_list rom
>              configuration: driver=i915 latency=0
>              resources: irq:16 memory:eff00000-eff7ffff ioport:ecd8(size=8) memo
> ry:d0000000-dfffffff(prefetchable) memory:efec0000-efefffff
>
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