Stabillity problems

Forum: User Feedback
Topic: Stabillity problems
started by: bigpilot

Posted by bigpilot on April 13 2006,07:36

To my amazement I've had DSL lock up on me *twice* yesterday. The first time I left it running for a long time and the screen turned off (probably done by the BIOS, but I'm not sure). When I tried to resume by pressing a key or moving the mouse it didn't respond, it had frozen on me.

The second time the screen was also turned off but when I moved the mouse it resumed normally. I then tried to type some text into the Beaver text editor and it froze on me again, couldn't do Ctrl-F2 or Alt-F2 or Ctrl-Alt-Del, keyboard lights didn't respond so it was dead.

I've never had stabillity problems with Linux before. Anyone have a clue why this might be happening?

I'm using 2.1b or 2.2 (not sure which).

Posted by roberts on April 13 2006,15:22

Sounds like a power management issue with your hardware and DSL. You may want to try some boot options to address that, or adjust your BIOS settings to avoid this.

Posted by bigpilot on April 16 2006,09:36

You're right. I turned off APM in the BIOS and I haven't had a lockup since.