On 02/02/2013 01:36 PM, William Ivanski wrote:
Hi everybody,
I have a Lenovo laptop, with CPU Intel Core i5, which I use to work.
I installed Debian Wheezy and the system freezes randomly. No response
to keyboard or mouse clicks, just mouse moves. Needed to restart all the
times.
I searched a lot about this problem, and many people suggest the
installation of a newer kernel (current is 3.2).
Currently, on kernel.org, stable release is 3.7.5.
I never compiled a kernel before, so I am afraid of the problems it
might create. I'm worried about virtualbox, which I installed through
aptitude.
I'm also considering upgrade to Debian unstable branch. It have a kernel
newer than 3.2, doesn't it?
So my questions are:
1) Which is better? Keep Debian Wheezy and compile a new kernel, or
upgrade to Debian Sid?
2) Have you guys compiled a kernel before? How it was? Can you provide
me a good tutorial about it?
Any help will be much appreciated.
Regards,
Will
Hi William,
as maybe you know Wheezy has been prepared to become a stable so with
some exceptions Sid doesn't contain newer packages, only bug fixes.
Compiling newer kernel is a time consuming operation and you have to
know a lot about your hardware and kernel options.
In my opinion you may do the following:
- try to identify the problem e.g. look in the log files for errors and
if you find something wrong, report it to debian community
- install another Linux distribution with newer packages and test your
hardware with newer software packages
- try to compile and install newer linux kernel yourself.
Best regards
Georgi
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