[ubuntu-za] Random freezes

[David Nel]

My 10.04 install was a dream compared to the 10.10 freezing issue. I still
have 10.04 installed on my laptop and it has yet to freeze on me. Currently
my 10.10 has frozen 5 times this week so far. I am running on the
2.6.35-24-generic kernel with official Nvidia drivers installed. I will look
in to installing a later kernel from the
http://kernel.ubuntu.com/~kernel-ppa/mainline site.

I see it has .deb files. Do I just download those and install them? I'm
assuming I install the headers first and then the image .deb file?



On 21 December 2010 10:37, Bill Cairns <cairnsww at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Tue, Dec 21, 2010 at 9:58 AM, David Nel <david.uberdiablo at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > Hey guys,
> >
> > I am experiencing random freezes on my 10.10 64bit installation lately.
> Has
> > anyone else been having issues with this?
> > I've seen quite a bit of posts on the forums regarding this matter (even
> > with 10.04, which for some reason worked fine for me).
> > I think it's a kernel problem to be honest but not sure if I can install
> a
> > more reliable kernel. Has anyone found some form of a work around yet?
>
> I am running 10.04 and was having a lot of problems with "random
> freezes" too. However, I have such faith in Ubuntu that I was
> convinced it must be a hardware problem, and sure enough it turned out
> that I had bad seating of one of the memory modules. I have not had
> problems since fixing that. My 10.10 machine has not frozen.
>
> Of course this does not mean that there isn't a kernel problem!
>
> Bill
>
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