Console Freezing

garrontmo · n00b Joined: 18 Apr 2002 Posts: 57 Location: Seattle, WA

My system freezes up a lot when I'm in the console. The only way to unfreeze it is to power it off. When I'm using X, it never freezes. I'm using a dell laptop. Can somebody recommend something? Is it something in the kernel?

Thanks,
Garron

justus · n00b Joined: 16 Apr 2002 Posts: 48

What type of graphics card/driver are you using?

I also had similar problems, but it appeared to have something to do with the nvidia-framebuffer support in the kernel. After I removed that it stopped doing that to me.

It used to also do that when switching to the console from X-windows...also now works fine.

Justin T

Guest · Posted: Sat Apr 20, 2002 12:29 pm Post subject:

It is the framebuffer wit riva support enabled, compile vesa instead.

AggieEmpeg · n00b Joined: 16 Apr 2002 Posts: 63

This is actually a common cause of those lockups that you describing. Recompile your kernel without this option.

Jeevz · Posted: Sun Apr 21, 2002 11:29 am Post subject:

Right, if you use VESA instead you should be fine. (If you still want to use framebuffer mode.)