Hi, guys, how are you?
On February, 2 I sent the e-mail below, about a problem I'm having with
Debian on my Lenovo laptop.
As suggested, I upgraded my kernel to 3.7 (the current trunk kernel at
that moment), but it didn't solve the problem.
So I returned to kernel 3.2 (my wifi didn't work on 3.7), and continued
living with the problem. Once a week, sometimes once a day, and
sometimes twice a day, the system freeze and I need to restart manually.
The issue is more critical because I use the laptop at the job.
But yesterday the system froze again, and I spent 3 hours scanning the
entire /var/log directory, hoping to find any message that could help me
understand the problem.
So I finally found it! My problem is related to this bug[1], though I
found the message "EQ overflowing" in file /var/log/gdm3/:0.log, not in
/var/log/Xorg.0.log.
I'm so glad I found this bug report, which is exactly the problem I'm
facing, and other people are facing this problem too. It means that it
may take time, but a solution will be found someday.
So I'm here to tell you guys that, though my experience with Linux is
not that much, I'm a developer (currently working with C# since 2008,
but spent three years with C before that) and I would be happy to help
you solve this bug :)
Regards,
Will
[1] http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=680514
On 02-02-2013 09:36, 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
