Re: APM/DPMS lockup on Dell 3800

2000-12-18 Thread Andrew McNabb
This is a problem with the 3Com Ethernet card in your system. There are annoying problems when you try to use this card on a network with a lot of collisions. On Mon, 18 Dec 2000, David Feuer wrote: > BTW, what does it mean when this gets logged? > > Dec 17 19:01:09 localhost kernel: eth0: Res

Re: APM/DPMS lockup on Dell 3800

2000-12-17 Thread David Feuer
Dagnabbit. I forgot to give my kernel version, and now I'm booted into Windows, and can't remember it. It's some 2.2 kernel: whatever comes with Mandrake 7.2. At 07:14 AM 12/18/2000 +0100, you wrote: > > >I have a Dell Inspiron 7000 with BIOS A15 and exactly the same >problem. > >(I last obse

Re: APM/DPMS lockup on Dell 3800

2000-12-17 Thread Mikael Djurfeldt
David Feuer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I get this problem both in Linux and Windows, so I won't > rule out hardware/bios bugs, but I find that often when my > monitor (backlight) gets turned off automatically after a > long period of non-use, the computer freezes up. I think it > only happens

Re: APM/DPMS lockup on Dell 3800

2000-12-17 Thread David Feuer
> By the way, I now checked the syslog, and I see that the last cron message was logged about an hour before I reset the system. So it looks like a total lockup. BTW, what does it mean when this gets logged? Dec 17 19:01:09 localhost kernel: eth0: Resetting the Tx ring pointer. Dec 17 19:01:0

APM/DPMS lockup on Dell 3800

2000-12-17 Thread David Feuer
I get this problem both in Linux and Windows, so I won't rule out hardware/bios bugs, but I find that often when my monitor (backlight) gets turned off automatically after a long period of non-use, the computer freezes up. I think it only happens when I've left it that way for a long time, though