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Laptop freezes sometimes when Debian Lenny starts
Hi,
the title of this post is nearly all information I can give you.
Sometimes when I boot my laptop with Debian Lenny the screen turns black when the X server starts and then the laptop freezes. No keyboard interaction works any more (e.g. I cannot kill the server or switch to any tty). I have to restart the laptop using the on/off switch and try again. Normally the second time works fine.
Maybe you can give me some solutions for this error or some hinds how to debug this. I have no idea how I can track the error because everything crashes before I can do anything.
If you need any more informations I can obtain from a normal (not crashed) run just let me know.
Thanks a lot and best regards,
Michael
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Michale,
Have you tried hitting Ctrl+C when if freezes to see if you can kill he running process?
Sorry, of course I should tell you how my system looks like (just forgot that):
I am talking about a Acer Extensa 5630 notebook. There is a second monitor (Acer AL1916) on a port multiplier. I attached my xorg.conf to this post so you can see my configuration.
mfillpot wrote: I am not sure if there is some hardware crashing. As far as I can remember, the error never occured when I am running Debian without the port multiplier and the second monitor or when I ran Windows Vista (with or without second monitor). But maybe the port multiplier has a problem and Vista works for any unknown strange reason.
I did not trying hitting Ctrl+c but I will do the next time the error occurs. Do you have any more ideas, I can check when the error occurs again? Unfortunately I cannot reproduce the error, I have to wait for its random occurence.
Thanks a lot and best regards,
Michael
[file name=xorg.txt size=3630]http://www.linux.com/media/kunena/attachments/legacy/files/xorg.txt[/file]
yesterday the problem reappeared. I used my laptop over several weeks without the docking station/port multiplier and had no problems. Yesterday I put it on the docking station and had to boot two times bevor X came up properly.
Pressing CTRl+C or CTRL+Shift+Backspace did not had any effect.
So any ideas out there?
Thank you very much for your help.
With best regards,
Michael