Sorry, I've installed Slackware64 14.2 in a Lenovo g50-30 and at the beginning all was completely ok, but a little time later, the laptop started to stop unexpectedly, in different situations; the screen freezes and I only can restart the system through the power button. I searched a lot about that problem and a few people had the same problem with other Lenovo g50 laptops, but nobody could find a real solution (alt + SysReq + S U B does not count as a solution).

(Forgive my English, I know it sucks...)

That actually has happened to me once so far on -current on an "old" Thinkpad.
I ended up blaming Firefox.
It would be worth your time to run memtest86 on your RAM.
Many bootable distros feature it in the starup menu.

Hello,

Looks like this.

Try to add "intel_idle.max_cstate=1" to the kernel boot parameters.


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SeB

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Thanks a lot!!

I will try that in a moment

That finally works, but everyone who want the same will need to have grub. That solution is unable under lilo.

Thanks again

GabrielEleazarRodriguez --

Can you not append intel_idle.max_cstate=1 to the LILO GLOBAL append= command ?

Like so in the GLOBAL Section ( append= applies to all Kernels ) :

Or if it only applies to one particular Kernel Version, Can it be passed with addappend= in the individual Kernel Blocks ?

Like so:
Edit: man lilo.conf implies that either method should work ...

Thanks.

-- kjh

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Why is it not possible in LILO? Did you try, and it failed? I'm curious, because if it's just a kernel arg, you certaily can pass those through LILO.

No, kjhambric, you surely are right, I was imprecise. Because I thought that I had to update grub, I use a grub-driven solution to run update-grub...

Append that line to the LILO GLOBAL section would have been a easier solution if I just had known that I could do that way.

I tried to re-install Slack in that notebook and do that fix in lilo adding the line in the GLOBAL section (without installing grub) and obviously it works (so much easier, as you know).

Thanks for that correction, my apologies.

Isn't lilo dead ?

The main developer has decided it is finished, if that's what you mean. That doesn't mean the software won't work and you shouldn't use it anymore. It is still the default bootloader on Slackware for non-UEFI systems. Plus Pat has stated he will take up maintenance if it needs it.

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I have one of these laptops sitting on a desk, unused as when I first tried 14.1 on it, I had nothing but misery with the rtlxxxx wifi card, and the driver for the alps touchpad was nowhere to be found. Can you identify the devices in your G50, and that they are working fine?
Cheers

Yeah, sure. I had the same kind of problems when I tried 14.1 at first, but I can assure you that all those worries just disappeared under 14.2. There are my devices:

bash-4.3# lspci
00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Atom Processor Z36xxx/Z37xxx Series SoC Transaction Register (rev 0e)
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation Atom Processor Z36xxx/Z37xxx Series Graphics & Display (rev 0e)
00:13.0 SATA controller: Intel Corporation Atom Processor E3800 Series SATA AHCI Controller (rev 0e)
00:1a.0 Encryption controller: Intel Corporation Atom Processor Z36xxx/Z37xxx Series Trusted Execution Engine (rev 0e)
00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation Atom Processor Z36xxx/Z37xxx Series High Definition Audio Controller (rev 0e)
00:1c.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation Atom Processor E3800 Series PCI Express Root Port 1 (rev 0e)
00:1c.2 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation Atom Processor E3800 Series PCI Express Root Port 3 (rev 0e)
00:1c.3 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation Atom Processor E3800 Series PCI Express Root Port 4 (rev 0e)
00:1d.0 USB controller: Intel Corporation Atom Processor Z36xxx/Z37xxx Series USB EHCI (rev 0e)
00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation Atom Processor Z36xxx/Z37xxx Series Power Control Unit (rev 0e)
00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corporation Atom Processor E3800 Series SMBus Controller (rev 0e)
02:00.0 Network controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8723BE PCIe Wireless Network Adapter
03:00.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8111/8168/8411 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet Controller (rev 10)

You surely know that the rtl8723 controller was removed from the libre kernel, so you won't find that on Debian, and was not included in the default 14.1 kernel because it was old. On networking, 14.2 worked finely out of the box for me...

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thank-you Gabriel...I'll give it another try with 14.2 and see how it goes.
Cheers