Re: Re: Ibook G4 freezes

2009-03-14 Thread Benjamin Herrenschmidt
On Sat, 2009-03-14 at 17:45 +, Madeleine Paterson wrote: > Hi, > I've an ibook that freezes randomly, and I just found your reply to > someone else with the same problem. I'd like to give it a go. Thing > is, I don't understand the tech-speak. could you help me out with an > idiot's guide

Re: Re: Ibook G4 freezes

2009-03-14 Thread Madeleine Paterson
Hi, I've an ibook that freezes randomly, and I just found your reply to someone else with the same problem. I'd like to give it a go. Thing is, I don't understand the tech-speak. could you help me out with an idiot's guide to the procedure? Thanks Peter Benson Your page is http://lists.deb

Re: Ibook G4 freezes

2006-05-26 Thread Ola Örtengren
Hello Debian! I have the exact problem with my Ibook G4. It is just 5 months since I bought it. It is very frustrating. I have also been googling for months. I've been through everything from Java, Flash and Airportproblems. My latest theory is that it is a memory-over-heating-problem. H

Re: Ibook G4 freezes

2005-12-15 Thread Benjamin Herrenschmidt
On Thu, 2005-12-15 at 14:54 +0100, Kevin ALLIX wrote: > I have tried to get my laptop crashing in console mode, but I have not > succeeded. > (Did a 16 hours stress test, with an average load of 28, heavy reads from > hard > drive, running out of memory, swapping, net overload, several suspends

Re: Ibook G4 freezes

2005-12-15 Thread Kevin ALLIX
Le Mercredi 14 Décembre 2005 1:mM:sS AM, Benjamin Herrenschmidt a écrit : > > > > DRI is disabled, even when the radeon module is not loaded, it freezes. > > > > >From xorg log : (II) RADEON(0): Direct rendering disabled > > > > Complete xorg log at the end of this mail. > > Ok, two other things y

Re: Ibook G4 freezes

2005-12-13 Thread Benjamin Herrenschmidt
On Tue, 2005-12-13 at 21:53 +0100, Kevin ALLIX wrote: > > Can you try disabling DRI ? It could be that causing your video chip to > > crash... You can do that by either removing the radeon.ko kernel module > > or by removing the Load "dri" line in your xorg.conf (or XF86Config if > > you are still

Re: Ibook G4 freezes

2005-12-13 Thread Kevin ALLIX
Le Lundi 12 Décembre 2005 7:mM:sS AM, Benjamin Herrenschmidt a écrit : > On Mon, 2005-12-12 at 03:47 +0100, Kevin ALLIX wrote: > > Hi, > > > > My ibook often freezes after a few hours, I have been googling for months > > and I can't find someone else with the same problem. > > > > Freeze descriptio

Re: Ibook G4 freezes

2005-12-11 Thread Benjamin Herrenschmidt
On Mon, 2005-12-12 at 03:47 +0100, Kevin ALLIX wrote: > Hi, > > My ibook often freezes after a few hours, I have been googling for months and > I can't find someone else with the same problem. > > Freeze description : > well...it just freezes :) Neither keyboard nor touchpad are active (can't

Ibook G4 freezes

2005-12-11 Thread Kevin ALLIX
Hi, My ibook often freezes after a few hours, I have been googling for months and I can't find someone else with the same problem. Freeze description : well...it just freezes :) Neither keyboard nor touchpad are active (can't switch to console nor typing anything, cursor doesn't respond to tou