My Dell Inspiron 9400 laptop freezes immediately after login to Lubuntu. If I reboot into recovery mode it works fine all day and all night! I'm thinking video driver problem? I've got an ATI Radeon Mobility x1400. This machine is dual boot, and I had been having a similar problem in XP, which was resolved by downloading Catalyst and .NET ver 1.1. (not available for Linux applications, from what I've been able to find). I've seen some posts regarding ATI open source drivers for Radeon, but I'm totally lost on the installation aspect. I think I may have actually managed to download one of these (I think I found the files on my hard drive), but I can't figure out how to install it. Any ideas?

Here is a link that shows you how to install ATI drivers in any buntu flavor.

-->https://help.ubuntu.com/community/BinaryDriverHowto/ATI

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Thank you for the link. I had seen it before, but was put off by a broken link in the body. I Googled the broken link and found what (I think) I needed. I downloaded a zip file for xf86-video-ati and extracted the files into a folder. Then I found one that gives me a pop-up box saying it is an executable file; what should I do with it? Will this install the driver? Open, Execute, or Execute in Terminal? I'm rather new to this and haven't a clue which choice is correct.

Lubuntu will come with the open source driver installed and enabled by default. The proprietary driver is not an option for your GPU. Do you have remote logins enabled via ssh? If so, can you login from another machine after this freeze happens?

I do not have remote logins enabled (I do not know what ssh is), but I could probably enable it and login from my desktop...but my desktop is Windows XP only.

But doesn't the info below show it as running the proprietary driver?

carolyn@carolyn-laptop:~$ lspci -nn | grep VGA
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] nee ATI Radeon Mobility X1400 [1002:7145]
carolyn@carolyn-laptop:~$ dmesg | grep drm
[ 7.588946] [drm] Initialized drm 1.1.0 20060810
[ 8.515960] [drm] VGACON disable radeon kernel modesetting.
[ 8.516999] [drm] Supports vblank timestamp caching Rev 1 (10.10.2010).
[ 8.517002] [drm] No driver support for vblank timestamp query.
[ 8.517006] [drm] Initialized radeon 1.33.0 20080528 for 0000:01:00.0 on minor 0

There are plenty of ssh clients for Windows. putty is one of the most popular. Seeing if you can login remotely will tell us if the entire machine had locked up, or just the X server.

I believe you just need to install openssh-server, and it will enable it automatically. Then you would just ssh to the server from the client program by using the ip address of the server.

The open source driver for this card is supposed to be OK, while the proprietary one seems to need compiling.

Can you tell us whether the Lubuntu disk will run in a live session?

Using ssh to diagnose a problem seems like overkill! At boot, when things freeze, press Ctrl-Alt-F2 and log in at the virtual terminal. You can use "dmesg" to get a report on the last thing that happened, or restart X with "killall Xorg" and see what error is stated.

No, that shows you are using the open source drivers.


Adam

OK, I finally got ssh downloaded and enabled networking (whew)! My laptop just froze again, this time while surfing (not in recovery mode). Ctrl-Alt-F2 does not work. So I logged into it via my desktop computer and typed "dmesg", and this is what was returned:
carolyn@carolyn-laptop:~$ [ 14.190563] cfg80211: (start_freq - end_freq @ bandwidth), (max_antenna_gai n, max_eirp)
-bash: syntax error near unexpected token `('
carolyn@carolyn-laptop:~$ [ 14.190566
-bash: [: missing `]'
carolyn@carolyn-laptop:~$ [ 14.190570] cfg80211: (2457000 KHz - 2482000 KHz @ 20000
-bash: syntax error near unexpected token `('
carolyn@carolyn-laptop:~$ [ 14.190573] cfg80211: (2474000 KHz - 2494000 KHz @
-bash: syntax error near unexpected token `('
carolyn@carolyn-laptop:~$ [ 14.190576] cfg80211: (5170000 KHz - 5250000 KHz @ 40000 KHz), (300 mBi, 20 00 mBm)
-bash: syntax error near unexpected token `('
carolyn@carolyn-laptop:~$ [
-bash: [: missing `]'
carolyn@carolyn-laptop:~$ [ 14.434131] type=1400 audit(1365892046.131:2): a
-bash: syntax error near unexpected token `('
carolyn@carolyn-laptop:~$ [ 14.434147] type=1400 audit(1365892046.131:
-bash: syntax error near unexpected token `('
carolyn@carolyn-laptop:~$ [ 14.434772] type=1400 audi
-bash: [: missing `]'
carolyn@carolyn-laptop:~$ [ 14.434790] type=1400 audit(1365892046.131:5): apparmor="STATUS" operatio
-bash: syntax error near unexpected token `('
carolyn@carolyn-laptop:~$ [ 14.435140] type=1400 audit(1365892046.131:6): apparmor="STATUS" operation="p rofile_load" name=
-bash: syntax error near unexpected token `('
carolyn@carolyn-laptop:~$ [ 14.435164] type=1400 audit(1365892046.131:7): apparmor="STATUS" operation="p rofil
-bash: syntax error near unexpected token `('
carolyn@carolyn-laptop:~$ [ 14.497078] [drm] fb mappable at 0xD00C0000
-bash: [: missing `]'
carolyn@carolyn-laptop:~$ [ 14.497083] [drm] vram a
-bash: [: missing `]'
carolyn@carolyn-laptop:~$ [ 14.497085] [drm] size 9216000
-bash: [: missing `]'
carolyn@carolyn-laptop:~$ [ 14.497087] [drm] fb depth is 2
-bash: [: missing `]'
carolyn@carolyn-laptop:~$ [ 14.497089] [drm] pitch is 7680
-bash: [: missing `]'
carolyn@carolyn-laptop:~$ [ 14.
-bash: [: missing `]'
carolyn@carolyn-laptop:~$ [ 1.098221] ACPI: Invalid Power Resource to regist
-bash: [: missing `]'
carolyn@carolyn-laptop:~$ [ 14.752268] Console: switching to colo
-bash: [: missing `]'
carolyn@carolyn-laptop:~$ [ 14.764742] fb0: radeondrmfb frame buffer device
-bash: [: missing `]'
carolyn@carolyn-laptop:~$ [ 14.764745] drm:
-bash: [: missing `]'
carolyn@carolyn-laptop:~$ [ 14.764766] [drm] Initialized radeon 2.24.0 20080528 for 0000:01:00.0 on mino r 0
-bash: [: missing `]'
carolyn@carolyn-laptop:~$ [ 14.787599] type=1400 audit(1365892046.483:8): apparmor="STATUS" operation="p rofile_load" name="/usr/sbin/ntpd" p
-bash: syntax error near unexpected token `('
carolyn@carolyn-laptop:~$ [ 14.788447] type=1400 audit(1365892046.487:9): apparmor="STATUS" operation="p rofile_replace" name="/usr/sbin/n
-bash: syntax error near unexpected token `('
carolyn@carolyn-laptop:~$ [ 14.839782] init: failsafe main process (717) killed by TERM signal
-bash: syntax error near unexpected token `('
[ 20.177367] IPv6: ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): eth1: link is not ready
carolyn@carolyn-laptop:~$ [ 16.022624] ppdev: user-space parallel port driver
-bash: [: missing `]'
carolyn@carolyn-laptop:~$ [ 16.857691] type=1400 audit(1365892048.555:10): apparmor="STATU
-bash: syntax error near unexpected token `('
carolyn@carolyn-laptop:~$ [ 16.858479] type=1400 audit(1365892048.555:11): apparmor="STATUS" operation=" profile_load" name="/usr/sbin/cupsd" pid=809 comm="apparmor_parser"
-bash: syntax error near unexpected token `('
carolyn@carolyn-laptop:~$ [ 17.139866] Bluetooth: Core ver 2.16
-bash: [: missing `]'
carolyn@carolyn-laptop:~$ [ 17.139897] NET: Registered protocol family 31
-bash: [: missing `]'
carolyn@carolyn-laptop:~$ [ 17.139900] Bluetooth: HCI device and connection manager initialized
-bash: [: missing `]'
carolyn@carolyn-laptop:~$ [ 17.140690] Bluetooth: HCI socket layer initialized
-bash: [: missing `]'
carolyn@carolyn-laptop:~$ [ 17.140696] Bluetooth: L2CAP socket layer initialized
-bash: [: missing `]'
carolyn@carolyn-laptop:~$ [ 17.140708] Bluetooth: SCO socket layer initialized
-bash: [: missing `]'
carolyn@carolyn-laptop:~$ [ 17.309769] Bluetooth: RFCOMM TTY layer initialized
-bash: [: missing `]'
carolyn@carolyn-laptop:~$ [ 17.309785] Bluetooth: RFCOMM socket layer initialized
-bash: [: missing `]'
carolyn@carolyn-laptop:~$ [ 17.309787] Bluetooth: RFCOMM ver 1.11
-bash: [: missing `]'
carolyn@carolyn-laptop:~$ [ 17.350717] Bluetooth: BNEP (Ethernet Emulation) ver 1.3
-bash: syntax error near unexpected token `('
carolyn@carolyn-laptop:~$ [ 17.350722] Bluetooth: BNEP filters: protocol multicast
-bash: [: missing `]'
carolyn@carolyn-laptop:~$ [ 17.350733] Bluetooth: BNEP socket layer initialized
-bash: [: missing `]'
carolyn@carolyn-laptop:~$ [ 20.177367] IPv6: ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): eth1: link is not ready
-bash: syntax error near unexpected token `('
carolyn@carolyn-laptop:~$ [ 20.177699] IPv6: ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): eth1: link is not ready
-bash: syntax error near unexpected token `('
carolyn@carolyn-laptop:~$ [ 20.998720] type=1400 audit(1365892052.695:12): apparmor="STATUS" operation=" profile_replace" name="/sbin/dhclient" pid=938 comm="apparmor_parser"
-bash: syntax error near unexpected token `('
carolyn@carolyn-laptop:~$ [ 20.999437] type=1400 audit(1365892052.695:13): apparmor="STATUS" operation=" profile_replace" name="/usr/lib/NetworkManager/nm-dhcp-client.action" pid=938 co mm="apparmor_parser"
-bash: syntax error near unexpected token `('
carolyn@carolyn-laptop:~$ [ 20.999831] type=1400 audit(1365892052.695:14): apparmor="STATUS" operation=" profile_replace" name="/usr/lib/connman/scripts/dhclient-script" pid=938 comm="a pparmor_parser"
-bash: syntax error near unexpected token `('
carolyn@carolyn-laptop:~$ [ 21.040049] type=1400 audit(1365892052.739:15): apparmor="STATUS" operation=" profile_load" name="/usr/lib/lightdm/lightdm/lightdm-guest-session-wrapper" pid= 937 comm="apparmor_parser"
-bash: syntax error near unexpected token `('
carolyn@carolyn-laptop:~$ [ 21.040591] type=1400 audit(1365892052.739:16): apparmor="STATUS" operation=" profile_load" name="/usr/lib/lightdm/lightdm/lightdm-guest-session-wrapper//chro mium_browser" pid=937 comm="apparmor_parser"
-bash: syntax error near unexpected token `('
carolyn@carolyn-laptop:~$ [ 21.047480] type=1400 audit(1365892052.743:17): apparmor="STATUS" operation=" profile_replace" name="/usr/lib/cups/backend/cups-pdf" pid=941 comm="apparmor_pa rser"
-bash: syntax error near unexpected token `('
carolyn@carolyn-laptop:~$ [ 21.048336] type=1400 audit(1365892052.747:18): apparmor="STATUS" operation=" profile_replace" name="/usr/sbin/cupsd" pid=941 comm="apparmor_parser"
-bash: syntax error near unexpected token `('
carolyn@carolyn-laptop:~$ [ 21.052299] type=1400 audit(1365892052.751:19): apparmor="STATUS" operation=" profile_replace" name="/usr/sbin/ntpd" pid=942 comm="apparmor_parser"
-bash: syntax error near unexpected token `('
carolyn@carolyn-laptop:~$ [ 21.095120] type=1400 audit(1365892052.791:20): apparmor="STATUS" operation=" profile_load" name="/usr/sbin/tcpdump" pid=944 comm="apparmor_parser"
-bash: syntax error near unexpected token `('
carolyn@carolyn-laptop:~$ [ 21.110256] type=1400 audit(1365892052.807:21): apparmor="STATUS" operation=" profile_load" name="/usr/bin/evince" pid=939 comm="apparmor_parser"
-bash: syntax error near unexpected token `('
carolyn@carolyn-laptop:~$ [ 23.816280] b44 ssb1:0 eth1: Link is up at 100 Mbps, full duplex
-bash: [: missing `]'
[ 4534.816695] EAX: df400000 EBX: 00000000 ECX: 0009b784 EDX: f8e80ffc
carolyn@carolyn-laptop:~$ [ 23.816290] b44 ssb1:0 eth1: Flow control is off for TX and off for RX
-bash: [: missing `]'
carolyn@carolyn-laptop:~$ [ 23.816397] IPv6: ADDRCONF(NETDEV_CHANGE): eth1: link becomes ready
-bash: syntax error near unexpected token `('
[ 4534.816751] ESI:carolyn@carolyn-laptop:~$ [ 4534.672163] radeon 0000:01:00.0: GPU lockup CP stall for more than 10000msec
-bash: [: missing `]'
carolyn@carolyn-laptop:~$ [ 4534.672176] radeon 0000:01:00.0: GPU lockup (waiting for 0x000000000000136d l ast fence id 0x0000000000001361)
-bash: syntax error near unexpected token `('
carolyn@carolyn-laptop:~$ [ 4534.814043] Failed to wait GUI idle while programming pipes. Bad things might happen.
-bash: [: missing `]'
carolyn@carolyn-laptop:~$ [ 4534.815152] BUG: unable to handle kernel paging request at f8e80ffc
-bash: [: missing `]'
carolyn@carolyn-laptop:~$ [ 4534.815267] IP: [<f8bfca96>] radeon_ring_backup+0xb6/0x120 [radeon]
-bash: f8bfca96: No such file or directory
carolyn@carolyn-laptop:~$ [ 4534.815410] *pdpt = 000000000199c001 *pde = 0000000034bff067 *pte = 000000000 0000000
-bash: [: missing `]'
carolyn@carolyn-laptop:~$ [ 4534.815525] Oops: 0000 [#1] SMP
[ 4534.817071] Stack:
-bash: [: missing `]'
carolyn@carolyn-laptop:~$ [ 4534.815566] Modules linked in: nls_iso8859_1(F) bnep rfcomm bluetooth parport _pc(F) ppdev(F) snd_hda_codec_idt coretemp snd_hda_intel snd_hda_codec radeon b4 3 kvm snd_hwdep(F) snd_pcm(F) snd_seq_midi(F) ttm snd_rawmidi(F) joydev(F) r852 snd_seq_midi_event(F) snd_seq(F) gpio_ich sm_common drm_kms_helper nand mac80211 snd_timer(F) drm mtd snd_seq_device(F) r592 nand_ids nand_bch bch(F) microcode( F) snd(F) memstick lpc_ich i2c_algo_bit soundcore(F) cfg80211 psmouse(F) dell_la ptop dell_wmi nand_ecc snd_page_alloc(F) dcdbas sparse_keymap serio_raw(F) ssb_h cd mac_hid wmi video(F) bcma lp(F) parport(F) hid_generic usbhid hid usb_storage (F) uas b44 sdhci_pci sdhci firewire_ohci firewire_core crc_itu_t(F) ssb
-bash: syntax error near unexpected token `('
carolyn@carolyn-laptop:~$ [ 4534.816462] Pid: 1065, comm: Xorg Tainted: GF 3.7.0-7-generic #15- Ubuntu Dell Inc. MP061 /0YD479
-bash: [: missing `]'
carolyn@carolyn-laptop:~$ [ 4534.816566] EIP: 0060:[<f8bfca96>] EFLAGS: 00213257 CPU: 1
-bash: f8bfca96: No such file or directory
carolyn@carolyn-laptop:~$ [ 4534.816641] EIP is at radeon_ring_backup+0xb6/0x120 [radeon]
-bash: [: missing `]'
carolyn@carolyn-laptop:~$ [ 4534.816695] EAX: df400000 EBX: 00000000 ECX: 0009b784 EDX: f8e80ffc
-bash: [: missing `]'
carolyn@carolyn-laptop:~$ [ 4534.816751] ESI: 00000000 EDI: f45048b0 EBP: f4ffddd0 ESP: f4ffddb4
-bash: [: missing `]'
carolyn@carolyn-laptop:~$ [ 4534.816807] DS: 007b ES: 007b FS: 00d8 GS: 00e0 SS: 0068
-bash: [: missing `]'
carolyn@carolyn-laptop:~$ [ 4534.816856] CR0: 8005003b CR2: f8e80ffc CR3: 344d6000 CR4: 000007f0
-bash: [: missing `]'
carolyn@carolyn-laptop:~$ [ 4534.816913] DR0: 00000000 DR1: 00000000 DR2: 00000000 DR3: 00000000
-bash: [: missing `]'
carolyn@carolyn-laptop:~$ [ 4534.816969] DR6: ffff0ff0 DR7: 00000400
-bash: [: missing `]'
carolyn@carolyn-laptop:~$ [ 4534.817005] Process Xorg (pid: 1065, ti=f4ffc000 task=f6d6e580 task.ti=f4ffc0 00)
-bash: syntax error near unexpected token `('
carolyn@carolyn-laptop:~$ [ 4534.817071] Stack:
-bash: [: missing `]'
carolyn@carolyn-laptop:~$ [ 4534.817093] 0009b784 f450489c 00026de1 f4ffde00 00000000 f4504000 00000000 f 4ffde18
-bash: [: missing `]'
carolyn@carolyn-laptop:~$ [ 4534.817197] f8bd4707 f3cccc00 f4ffddec f8759893 00000000 00000001 f4504480 f 450400c
-bash: [: missing `]'
carolyn@carolyn-laptop:~$ [ 4534.817300] ffffffdd f3cccc2c f4ffde20 df400000 00000000 00000000 f3cccd30 f fffffdd
-bash: [: missing `]'
carolyn@carolyn-laptop:~$ [ 4534.817404] Call Trace:
-bash: [: missing `]'
carolyn@carolyn-laptop:~$ [ 4534.817447] [<f8bd4707>] radeon_gpu_reset+0x57/0x1c0 [radeon]
-bash: f8bd4707: No such file or directory
carolyn@carolyn-laptop:~$ [ 4534.817510] [<f8759893>] ? ttm_bo_unreserve_locked+0x33/0x40 [ttm]
-bash: f8759893: No such file or directory
carolyn@carolyn-laptop:~$ [ 4534.817590] [<f8bfb0fd>] radeon_gem_handle_lockup.part.2+0xd/0x20 [radeon]
-bash: f8bfb0fd: No such file or directory
carolyn@carolyn-laptop:~$ [ 4534.817675] [<f8bfba37>] radeon_gem_wait_idle_ioctl+0xa7/0xc0 [radeon]
-bash: f8bfba37: No such file or directory
carolyn@carolyn-laptop:~$ [ 4534.817757] [<f8bfb990>] ? radeon_gem_busy_ioctl+0xf0/0xf0 [radeon]
-bash: f8bfb990: No such file or directory
carolyn@carolyn-laptop:~$ [ 4534.817830] [<f87fceca>] drm_ioctl+0x42a/0x490 [drm]
-bash: f87fceca: No such file or directory
carolyn@carolyn-laptop:~$ [ 4534.817900] [<f8bfb990>] ? radeon_gem_busy_ioctl+0xf0/0xf0 [radeon]
-bash: f8bfb990: No such file or directory
carolyn@carolyn-laptop:~$ [ 4534.817964] [<c105ea49>] ? set_current_blocked+0x49/0x60
-bash: c105ea49: No such file or directory
carolyn@carolyn-laptop:~$ [ 4534.818014] [<c105eaac>] ? signal_delivered+0x4c/0x70
-bash: c105eaac: No such file or directory
carolyn@carolyn-laptop:~$ [ 4534.818067] [<c1019225>] ? fpu_finit+0x55/0x70
-bash: c1019225: No such file or directory
carolyn@carolyn-laptop:~$ [ 4534.818110] [<c101a613>] ? __restore_xstate_sig+0x383/0x510
-bash: c101a613: No such file or directory
carolyn@carolyn-laptop:~$ [ 4534.818176] [<f87fcaa0>] ? drm_copy_field+0x80/0x80 [drm]
-bash: f87fcaa0: No such file or directory
carolyn@carolyn-laptop:~$ [ 4534.818231] [<c1168e0a>] do_vfs_ioctl+0x7a/0x5a0
-bash: c1168e0a: No such file or directory
carolyn@carolyn-laptop:~$ [ 4534.818278] [<c1010e41>] ? restore_sigcontext+0xf1/0x110
-bash: c1010e41: No such file or directory
carolyn@carolyn-laptop:~$ [ 4534.818328] [<c116939b>] sys_ioctl+0x6b/0x80
-bash: c116939b: No such file or directory
carolyn@carolyn-laptop:~$ [ 4534.818371] [<c15f9d4d>] sysenter_do_call+0x12/0x28
-bash: c15f9d4d: No such file or directory
carolyn@carolyn-laptop:~$ [ 4534.818419] Code: 02 89 c8 89 4d e4 e8 6a be 54 c8 8b 55 f0 85 c0 89 02 8b 4d e4 74 46 31 f6 eb 07 66 90 8b 55 f0 8b 02 8b 57 04 8d 14 9a 83 c3 01 <8b> 12 89 14 30 83 c6 04 23 5f 50 39 f1 75 e3 8b 45 e8 e8 a3 3d
-bash: 8b: No such file or directory
carolyn@carolyn-laptop:~$ [ 4534.818855] EIP: [<f8bfca96>] radeon_ring_backup+0xb6/0x120 [radeon] SS:ESP 0 068:f4ffddb4
-bash: f8bfca96: No such file or directory
carolyn@carolyn-laptop:~$ [ 4534.818964] CR2: 00000000f8e80ffc
-bash: [: missing `]'
carolyn@carolyn-laptop:~$ [ 4534.844320] ---[ end trace c3a6690a697ffeac ]---
-bash: [: missing `]'
carolyn@carolyn-laptop:~$

Does anyone see where the problem is here? I'm still running in Restore mode.