Mandrake freezes?
 

hey,

I am a new user to mandrake linux and a fairly unexperienced linux user in general so i'm probably just forgetting to hit a button that i need to but anyway,

Every time I boot linux up after about 5 minutes or so of using the computer my usb keyboard and mouse stop working. My p/s2 keyboard, on the other hand, still works. Also, when my usb keyboard and mouse stop functioning all the programs currently running also cease to work.

I am running on an AMD XP 2200+ with 512M RAM, an ATI Radeon 9600, SBlive soundcard, all of which seem to be functioning properly except for the freezing.
I also have windows 98 that is working fine.

Any help would be very nice.

What is your motherboard? I had the same prblem with the network card on another system. I had to add the option "noapic nolapic" to my lilo.conf file ran lilo and then reboot. Now the network never stops.

I have a Gigabyte N400, nVIDIA nForce 2 chipset.

When I tried to run lilo in the command line I got an error saying something like "/boot/message: cannot find file" or something like that (sorry for lack of specifics, I am on my windows side currently)
I have 2 hardrives one with windows and the other with linux, could that be confusing lilo or could the lilo.conf that it's using be in a different place? When I installed mandrake i told it to put the bootloader on the MRB, which is on the windows harddrive.

[shrugs] thanks again for the help

The line you should be changing look something like this:
append="failsafe acpi=ht resume=/dev/hda5 devfs=nomount"
you need to change it to something like this:
append="failsafe acpi=ht resume=/dev/hda5 devfs=nomount noapic nolapic"
see the noapic nolapic at the end of the line still in quotes.
save and quit then run lilo/ No having a dual boot is not the problem.
You can also run the boot configure in Mandrake Control center and add the option their.
Sorry but I havn't used the boot editor since I learned how to change the lilo.conf file manually.

I still get the same error when I try to run lilo.
"Fatal: open /boot/message: No such file or directory"

Also, in my lilo.conf there is no line that looks anything like the pattern you showed me.
It only shows that i have "windows" and "floppy" configured in the lilo.conf BUT when I go through lilo when starting up the computer it shows 5 or 6 different things.

Thanks for your help again, sorry I can't explain the problem any better

In the directory /boot do you have a file/link pointing to /boot/message-graphic if not that why lilo is failing. Could the contents of your lilo.conf file so I can see what it look like?

My lilo.conf looks like this:

# File generated by DrakX/drakboot
# WARNING: do not forget to run lilo after modifying this file

boot=/dev/hdb
map=/boot/map
default="windows"
prompt
nowarn
timeout=150
message=/boot/message
menu-scheme=wb:bw:wb:bw
disk=/dev/hdb bios=0x80
disk=/dev/hda bios=0x81
other=/dev/hda1
label="windows"
table=/dev/hda
map-drive=0x80
to=0x81
map-drive=0x81
to=0x80
other=/dev/fd0
label="floppy"
unsafe


The link to "message-graphic" seems to be "broken". The link is there but it says that it's broken.