Linux Mint

Gloria keep freezing

Asked by Micholus

Hello

First i want to tell you that i'm from Slovenia so i apologize for my poor english.

OK. I am new user of Linux Mint or i would rather say new in linux. I was trying a few Linux distros and i must say that linux mint (for me) is the greatest (a lot of supported software) and easiest to use from all other distros. I was so excited about linux mint that i had installed this wonderfull OS on my wife's IBM laptop. And works perfect there. So i decided to install linux mint gloria on my HP Pavilion and left Microsoft for good.
Now here is my problem started. Installation went perfectly good (i installed on brand new hard disk). Then i logged in, and setup my wifi network and when i tried to connect there was the first freeze. I had to do hard shutdown (on power button). I started again my laptop and after grub menu there was some BIOS bug (Timer not connected IO-APIC something), but linux have booted and i thought that this bug is some minor problem just to be ignored. Than i try to connect again and freeze is here. After 3 boot times i finally got connected. I said "Maybe gloria just need new updates/upgrades. So i decided to do so (with apt-get). And i must say that after updating gloria was working perfectly. So i thought. After an hour or more, when i was browsing on internet, the freeze was here. Again hard reset etc. I installed gloria 3 times (with different CDs). The results is the same. Gloria just keeps freezing after a time. So i created dualboot with xp that i could at least using my computer (and writing this).

Now i just wonder. Is this my hardware problem, or is this coused with that APIC bug (i even tried that F6 and noapic but its the same). Is this maybe some kernell/hardware conflict problem that cousing system freezing. Does someone else has the similar problem with HP Pavilion.

I was so excited going on Linux and now i'm again on windows. I hope that this is just a temporary system bug and that it will be fixed with the next updates/upgrades (i will keep going updating gloria).

BR
Micholus

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aei-tech (aei-tech) said : 		#1

What are the exact hardware specs?

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Micholus (micholus) said : 		#2

Thank you for quick reply.

My specs. are:

HP Pavilion zv5000

1. BIOS DATA:

Property Value
BIOS Vendor Hewlett-Packard
BIOS Version F.45
Firmware Version 119.108
BIOS Date 04/06/2005
BIOS Size 512 KB
BIOS Starting Segment E4D0h
DMI Version 2.31
Characteristics - supports PCI
 - supports PC Card (PCMCIA)
 - supports Plug-and-Play
 - upgradeable (Flash) BIOS
 - allows BIOS shadowing
 - supports booting from CD-ROM
 - supports selectable boot
 - supports INT 05 print-screen
 - supports INT 09 and 8042 keyboard services
 - supports INT 17 printer services
 - supports INT 10 CGA/Mono video services
 - supports ACPI
 - supports legacy USB
 - supports AGP
 - supports booting from LS-120
 - Smart Battery supported

2. MOTHERBOARD DATA;

Property Value
Manufacturer Hewlett-Packard
Model 089C
Version 31.45
Serial Number CND44208MBABCDEF

North Bridge ATI ID5833 Revision 02
South Bridge ATI SB200 Revision 02

CPU Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 3.40GHz
Cpu Socket Socket 478 mPGA

System Slots 2 PCMCIA

Memory Summary
Maximum Capacity 1024 MBytes
Maximum Memory Module Size 2048 MBytes
Memory Slots 2
Error Correction None

3. CPU DATA;

Property Value
Number of CPU(s) One Physical Processor / One Core / 2 Logical Processors / 32 bits
CPU Full Name Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 3.40GHz
Vendor GenuineIntel
CPU Name Intel Pentium 4
CPU Code Name Northwood
Platform Name Socket 478 mPGA
Revision D1
Technology 0.13 µm
Instructions MMX, SSE, SSE2, HT
Original Clock 3400 MHz
Original System Clock 200 MHz
Original Multiplier 17.0
CPU Clock 3400 MHz
System Clock 200.0 MHz
FSB 800.0 MHz
L1 Data Cache 8 KBytes
L1 Trace Cache 12 Kuops
L2 Cache 2 x 512 KBytes

4. MEMORY DATA;

1024MByte DDR PC2700

5. GRAPHIC CARD;

Description ATI MOBILITY RADEON 9000/9100 IGP 128MB shared memory

6. HARD DISC;

WD SCORPIO 250 GB ATA

7. PCMCIA WIFI CARD

LEVEL ONE WPC 0300 SUPER G 108M WIRELESS CARDBUS PCI ADAPTER

I hope that this would help you. If you need more data dont hesitate to ask.

Thanks in advance

Micholus

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Micholus (micholus) said : 		#3

HY

I don't know what happened but since i changed my desktop theme from default to some custom, the freezing problem stoped. So now i have a computer switched on for about three days without any problem. And i tried everything; downloading torrents with Deluge, watching movies, browsing with opera etc.

So far so good and i hope that it will stay this way.

I can finally use linux mint wooohooo!

Best regards
Micholus

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Micholus (micholus) said : 		#4

Few hours After i post my previous message, the freeze problem came back. So i decided to go to the bottom case of my problem.
And Now i, for sure, really know what was the source of my problem. After trying few other distros (some worked other did not - freeze problem) i wanted to know what the distros that worked and distros that didn't worked have in common.
The problem was Atheros wifi drivers ath5k. So after i changed wifi drivers module ath5k with madwifi ath_pci module, the problem was gone. And now for sure. Now even my LED light, on PCMCIA wifi card, is blinking.

So i hope that this info would be helpfull to someone with the same problem as i had.

Best wishes
Micholus