On 05 Dec 2001, Jor-el wrote: > On Thu, 6 Dec 2001, Paolo Falcone wrote: > > > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > > >I'd greatly appreciate it if anyone could either tell me how to or > > >point me to any info which will atleast allow me to gather info on the > > >crash, so that I can post it to linux-kernel. > > > > if it's specifically a kernel crash (as in Oops) you can use'the > > ksymoops utility for the kernel developers to help them track the > > source of your problem. > > Unfortunately, I cant tell if it is an oops or not because the display > remains stuck in power saver mode. But thanks for the info. > > > > > I doubt if it's really the kernel at fault there, though... > > have you tried checking the hardware? If everything still doesn't > > work despite the long hours of troubleshooting, then you might > > say that you've narrowed the problem to the kernel. > > > > Not sure how I would go about checking the hardware. The only diag > routines that I have come across are for NIC's. And those too only seem to > run under DOS (sigh!). Any suggestions? > > Thanks, > Jor-el >
I missed the beginning of this thread so if I'm off-topic, apologies. I've been getting frequent (1/day) lockups since about kernel 2.4.12, with both ac and regular versions. Latest is 2.4.16. They always happen when I'm online, and the hdd light always remains on. Other than that, I have no clue. Currently I've gone back to 2.2.20, and no lockups at all today in spite of quite a lot of time online. But it's too early to be sure that it's the answer. Anthony -- Anthony Campbell - running Linux GNU/Debian (Windows-free zone) For an electronic book (The Assassins of Alamut), skeptical essays, and over 140 book reviews, go to: http://www.acampbell.org.uk/ Our planet is a lonely speck in the great enveloping cosmic dark. In our obscurity, in all this vastness, there is no hint that help will come from elsewhere to save us from ourselves. [Carl Sagan]