mint 9 freezes oftentimes ...

rahulkya · 04-03-2011, 04:10 PM

On my acer aspire 5742 I have both mint 9 32bit and 64bit. Both have same problem of freezing occasionally.
No specific application causes the freezing..
Laptop temperature is not a issue{its cool}.

Here is my lspci

Quote:

00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Core Processor DRAM Controller (rev 02)
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation Core Processor Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 02)
00:16.0 Communication controller: Intel Corporation 5 Series/3400 Series Chipset HECI Controller (rev 06)
00:1a.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 5 Series/3400 Series Chipset USB2 Enhanced Host Controller (rev 05)
00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation 5 Series/3400 Series Chipset High Definition Audio (rev 05)
00:1c.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 5 Series/3400 Series Chipset PCI Express Root Port 1 (rev 05)
00:1c.1 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 5 Series/3400 Series Chipset PCI Express Root Port 2 (rev 05)
00:1d.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 5 Series/3400 Series Chipset USB2 Enhanced Host Controller (rev 05)
00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801 Mobile PCI Bridge (rev a5)
00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation Mobile 5 Series Chipset LPC Interface Controller (rev 05)
00:1f.2 SATA controller: Intel Corporation 5 Series/3400 Series Chipset 4 port SATA AHCI Controller (rev 05)
00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corporation 5 Series/3400 Series Chipset SMBus Controller (rev 05)
00:1f.6 Signal processing controller: Intel Corporation 5 Series/3400 Series Chipset Thermal Subsystem (rev 05)
01:00.0 Ethernet controller: Broadcom Corporation NetLink BCM57780 Gigabit Ethernet PCIe (rev 01)
02:00.0 Network controller: Atheros Communications Inc. AR9287 Wireless Network Adapter (rev 01)
ff:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Core Processor QuickPath Architecture Generic Non-core Registers (rev 02)
ff:00.1 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Core Processor QuickPath Architecture System Address Decoder (rev 02)
ff:02.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Core Processor QPI Link 0 (rev 02)
ff:02.1 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Core Processor QPI Physical 0 (rev 02)
ff:02.2 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Core Processor Reserved (rev 02)
ff:02.3 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Core Processor Reserved (rev 02)

Thanks in Advance

carltm · 04-03-2011, 06:05 PM

Two thoughts come to mind...overheating and bad memory.

You might be surprised by the various temperatures
returned by "cat /proc/acpi/thermal_zone/*/temperature".

To test the memory, I suggest memtest86. It is available
on floppy or on various rescue cds.

Inkit · 04-03-2011, 09:06 PM

Hi Rahul, just one thing, do you notice that your comp freezes only when your browser is open? I've had the same trouble with mint 9 and 10 and noticed that this happens only when my browser was open. Also I do not know about you but I had only 512 mb of ram. I solved this issue in two ways. If you find that it is the browser that is causing all the trouble, just go to Edit>preferences>content and uncheck Enable javascript. this will solve your problem. if however you want the added functionality of running javascript, and if you too have 512 mb ram you'll have to add more. I don't know if this is your trouble, but it may be worth a shot.