FC2 freezes on ThinkPad T22
 

Running latest T22 bios (v1.12).
The exact machine type and model is: 2647-8EG
( http://www-307.ibm.com/pc/support/si...Entry=2647-8eg )
Both Win2k and WinXP work 100% stable on this machine.
Using 512MB (passed several runs of MemTest), and 500MB swap.
This is a very basic FC2 installation without any development or server components.

First free happened when I was browsing the Add Remove...
2nd free happened when I was surfing with Mozila.

Anyone any idea?
Thanks!
Tom

Can you try after running

system-config-display --reconfig --set-driver=vesa

as root? Even if you end up with a less nice screen configuration. Could be that the lockup is related to your video driver, in which case submitting a bug report at http://bugzilla.redhat.com could be helpful. Be sure to provide information such as the output of /sbin/lspci -v and your X log files.

There are also https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list and https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/xfree86-list where you could ask.

Tried that but got the following error message:
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[root@xxxxxxx root]# system-config-display --reconfig --set-driver=vesa
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/share/system-config-display/xconf.py", line 412, in ?
hardware_state.merge_into(xconfig)
NameError: name 'hardware_state' is not defined
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What does it mean?

Can't reproduce. It seems you are out-of-date as the line of code referred to is different here. Update system-config-display first with up2date or yum, even in text mode to prevent lockups. There is a Fedora Core 2 Update for the utility. You should get this when querying RPM:

$ rpm --query system-config-display
system-config-display-1.0.17-2

Tried running up2date, and saw the system-config-display-1.0.17-2 update package.
The updates were installed and I restarted the computer, but when I wanted to test the system-config-display version again, it gave me a message that system-config-display is not installed ?!?!?!

What have I done wrong?

Please copy the full input and output from your attempt. I was not standing next to you when you tried it. ;)

Fair enough, and sorry :o you're totaly right!

[root@xxxxxxxx root]# rpm --query system-config-display
package system-config-display is not installed
[root@xxxxxxxx root]#

Run up2date system-config-display in a console. That should install the package.

Btw, no reboot necessary. Only reason to reboot would be to boot a new kernel.

Two things learned!
Thanks! :)

Now I'll check whether the initial procedure you suggested (system-config-display --reconfig --set-driver=vesa) solves this freeze up problem.

Don't misunderstand me, though. Turning on the VESA driver is not a fix, but just a test whether your freeze might be related to your other graphics driver.

How do I verify which driver is active without changing anything?

By reading /etc/X11/xorg.conf

When I run: system-config-display --reconfig --set-driver=vesa
it gives me the following result:
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[root@xxxxxxxx root]# system-config-display --reconfig --set-driver=vesa
* ddcprobe returned bogus values:
ID: None
Name: None
HorizSync: None
VertSync: None

Trying with card: S3 Savage/IX
[root@xxxxxxxx root]#
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What does it means?

That DDC probing of your display failed.

So I just need to choose LCD 1024x768 manually (in the graphic display setting), right?
(that's what IBM suggest)