[ltp] lockups and other strangeness in tp 600
Forrest English
linux-thinkpad@www.bm-soft.com
18 Apr 2001 07:13:26 PDT
i ran them before installing freebsd on it, and it had something wrong
with DSP? everything else said it was fine.
course, now that freebsd is on there, i can't get the utils to load, i
think the freebsd bootloader is interfering.
isn't dsp related to the sound device?
On Wed, 18 Apr 2001 07:21:13 -0600, Robert Hollis whispered to the
router:
!!Did you try running any of the diagnostic tools from the BIOS?
!!
!! Robert Hollis
!! 630-573-7383 (T/L 677)
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!! "Forrest English" <forrest@truffula.net>@bm-soft.com on 04/17/2001
07:19:17
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!! Subject: [ltp] lockups and other strangeness in tp 600
!!
!!
!!
!! i've got a thinkpad 600, and i've had no problems whatever with xfree
!! 3.3.6 in the few days i've had it. but, xfree 4.0x causes all kinds
of
!! problems.
!!
!! some of these may or may not be related to xfree. but, i thought i'd
!! throw this out there.
!!
!! 1. starting x will somtimes work... most of the time, it'll start up,
!! and the fonts won't be fully drawn (both in blackbox, twm, and icewm).
!! i can move my mouse, but as soon as i click on anything... x shoots
to
!! taking up 100% cpu, and i can't ctl+alt+backspace it, and i can't go
to
!! another tty anymore. i can still ssh in, but it's very, very slow.
!! killing x has no effect, still can't switch to a tty, and the display
!! goes black.
!!
!! 2. not sure if this is related to the above issue, but later on with
!! these problems, with me trying over and over, and it somtimes hanging
on
!! shutdown... or before i realized i could ssh in... so, anyhow.
when
!! i'd try to start x, it'd say that /tmp/.X11(or somthing like that)
didn't
!! have the right permissions, root.root. it was root.root, but, i
tried rm
!! -rf ing it and trying again. it created the files again, and had the
!! same message. at this point, i didn't know what to do at all.
!!
!! 3. the aforementioned hanging on shutdown fairly often. at the point
!! where it'll say... "Rebooting..." after all the proc's are shutdown,
it
!! would hang there forever. so, i was forced to shut it down with the
!! power button.
!!
!! 4. froze a couple times on booting up as well.
!!
!! 5. in windows, it froze just sitting there after booting up. when
even
!! windows rarely freezes.
!!
!!
!! now, i'm fairly sure that some of this is hardware related... and the
!! machine is still under warrentee, but, what exactly do i do? say
"hey
!! ibm, this thing locks up in windows, and it locks like crazy in linux,
!! could you fix that?" seems like they'd just tell me to go away.
not
!! to mention the machine has freebsd on it right now (which with xfree
!! 3.3.6 i've yet to have problems with....).
!!
!! i'm open to suggestions here. i like freebsd, but i'd preffer to go
back
!! to familier territory of linux. but i can't until it will let me use
x,
!! and not lock up on startup/shutdown at random.
!!
!! what does anyone think is wrong? how could i test if it's that
specific
!! thing, and what should i do regarding getting ibm to fix whatever is
!! wrong?
!!
!! thanks.
!!
!! --
!! Forrest English
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