[ltp] Freezing T21 with Mandrake 9.0 to 10.0

[Alex Deucher]

On Fri, 17 Dec 2004 10:42:55 -0800, Lyndon Tiu <ltiu@alumni.sfu.ca> wrote:
> 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?
> 

you might try running xorg from cvs.  I re-wrote large amounts of the
savage driver.  I've found it to be very stable and it now supports
dualhead.

Another thing you might try is turning off certain XAA accel routines.
 see the xorg.conf or XF86Config man page for how to do this.

Alex

> --
> Lyndon Tiu