On Mon, Jan 7, 2013 at 2:56 PM, Gordon Messmer <yiny...@eburg.com> wrote:

> Google results for "xorg hangs Sandybridge i915" turn up a whole lot of
> results (sadly).  Among the first page results is one report that a bad
> BIOS was responsible for the problem.  Have you updated yours?
>

I haven't updated my bios, will do that right now if there is newer version
available.


> Has this system ever run a Linux distribution that didn't hang/crash?
>

Nope, only Fedora 16 and now 17.


> It may be useful to configure kdump on your system to see if that can
> capture the cause of the crash.
>

Any pointers on how to configure kdump?

Thank a lot for these tips!
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