[ltp] Freezing T21 with Mandrake 9.0 to 10.0

[Lyndon Tiu]

Hello,

Hopefully someone on this list has some ideas.

I have an IBM T21 laptop P3-800/650Mhz with 256MB RAM running Mandrake 
9.1, 9.2 and 10.0.

I have had this problem where after a few hours of continiuos use on 
X-windows, it would freeze and a hard reboot is necessary. It usually 
occurs when I am scrolling on Mozilla, OpenOffice, Konqueror or Kmail - 
it seems that the common denominator here is scrolling.

The freeze only occurs when under X-windows and not when under a plain 
command line console (runlevel 3).

I have checked the RAM and it is fine since I have swapped it with other 
fully working laptops.

I have tried various APM/ACPI settings using tpctl to no avail. The 
freeze occurs at random intervals and is very hard to reproduce, when it 
happens, it happens. It also affects a few different mandrake versions 
from 9.0 to 10.0.

Anyone else here had this problem and any suggested solutions?

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Lyndon Tiu