[ltp] T60p lockups

Martin Bock linux-thinkpad@linux-thinkpad.org
Sun, 11 Nov 2007 13:22:23 +0100


Dear Richard!

On Sun, Nov 11, 2007 at 04:43:56AM +0000, Richard Neill wrote:
> Dear All,
>
> I'm having frequent (every few days) lockups with my T60, where simply 
> clicking the mouse on a menu or tab will hang the machine. I have to 
> recover with the power switch (not even SysRQ works).  Sometimes I 
> even have to disconnect the AC for a minute, or powering-on only shows 
> a black screen with a flashing cursor, and fails to boot.
>
> However, when it works, it works fine for a few days. I'm using Ubuntu 
> Feisty, with the vesa driver (so surely it can't be a fglrx problem).  
> Memtest works fine.
>
> Any suggestions? Any tests I can run to exercise the rest of the 
> hardware?

Compiling, compiling, compiling.

> Thanks very much,
>
> Richard

Best regards,

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        Martin Bock                                          :wq