[ltp] Lockups with T520

[Robert Tomsick]

On Mon, 2011-05-23 at 14:39 +0200, Ole Langbehn wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I got a new T520 about 5 weeks ago. Since then, I've had complete
> lockups about every other day. Sometimes it happens three times a day,
> sometimes the box runs for a couple of days without error.
> 
> The symptoms are:
> 
> * screen freezes
> * can't connect to box via network
> * sound playback goes to very short loop
> * after reset, the log files (/var/log/messages, Xorg.log) don't show
> anything related to the lockup
> 
> These lockups happen with a gentoo install as well as with an ubuntu
> 11.04 install. I've also tested the memory and swapped it around, tested
> with just one memory bank, shut down wireless and other not needed
> hardware, all to no avail.
> 
> So, my questions are:
> 
> * Has anyone with a T520 experienced these or similar lockups?
> * Does anyone know how to further analyze the problem?
> * What are the chances of this being a hardware issue?

Do you have an Intel WLAN card?

If so, grab the latest experimental firmware and try using that.

-Rob