Hi all, i just installed and configured Slackware 10, but i have this problem.

It often sleep few seconds for a couple of times (so i see the mouse pointer on the screen but no answere)
Does anybody knows what could it be?

Thank you.

Am I correct in assuming your mouse freezes on the screen for a few seconds... and then its OK?

I had a similar problem with my laptop a few weeks ago, it turned out that my hard drive was dying,
(It did eventually die and I lost everything)

Now Im not saying that your drive is dying, what I am saying is that you should check your hard drive for errors thoroughly,,,,, particulary in the swap partition.
And make regular backups of all your important data........

What is the hard drive?
This is the first time i hear something like this.
What is it better to do?
Reinstall everything?

Lol...

Unless you are joking, you are doomed to fail no matter what. LinuxQuestions probably will not be able to help you.

Go to this page it explains it better than I could:
http://computer.howstuffworks.com/hard-disk.htm

No that is definately your last option, I would recommend that you run
a disk checker of some sort, unfortunately I cant offer more advice at this time as I dont know which file system you are using.

could you post that information and also if your drive is split into any partitions and we will try to help you some more.

Sorry for my english if i did not understand.
I had a lot of little problems with linux but i never had problems with hard drive.
This is what i meant.

Disk /dev/hda: 81.9 GB, 81964302336 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 9964 cylinders
Units = cilindri of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes

Dispositivo Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/hda1 * 1 2040 16386268+ 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/hda2 2041 2106 530145 82 Linux swap
/dev/hda3 2107 7843 46082452+ 83 Linux
/dev/hda4 7844 9964 17036932+ 83 Linux

The filesystem i am using is ext3.
I have slackware 10 on /dev/hda3 and i just installed it.
On dev/hda4 i have slackware 9.1 but i would like to use this partition for slackware 10 too after a good configuration.



dmesg
Linux version 2.4.26 (root@tree) (gcc version 3.3.4) #6 Mon Jun 14 19:07:27 PDT 2004
BIOS-provided physical RAM map:
BIOS-e820: 0000000000000000 - 000000000009fc00 (usable)
BIOS-e820: 000000000009fc00 - 00000000000a0000 (reserved)
BIOS-e820: 00000000000f0000 - 0000000000100000 (reserved)
BIOS-e820: 0000000000100000 - 000000001fff0000 (usable)
BIOS-e820: 000000001fff0000 - 000000001fff3000 (ACPI NVS)
BIOS-e820: 000000001fff3000 - 0000000020000000 (ACPI data)
BIOS-e820: 00000000fec00000 - 00000000fec01000 (reserved)
BIOS-e820: 00000000fee00000 - 00000000fee01000 (reserved)
BIOS-e820: 00000000ffff0000 - 0000000100000000 (reserved)
user-defined physical RAM map:
user: 0000000000000000 - 000000000009fc00 (usable)
user: 000000000009fc00 - 00000000000a0000 (reserved)
user: 00000000000f0000 - 0000000000100000 (reserved)
user: 0000000000100000 - 000000001fff0000 (usable)
511MB LOWMEM available.
On node 0 totalpages: 131056
zone(0): 4096 pages.
zone(1): 126960 pages.
zone(2): 0 pages.
Kernel command line: ro root=/dev/hda3 hdc=ide-scsi hdd=ide-scsi mem=524224K
ide_setup: hdc=ide-scsi
ide_setup: hdd=ide-scsi
Initializing CPU#0
Detected 1674.498 MHz processor.
Console: colour VGA+ 80x25
Calibrating delay loop... 3342.33 BogoMIPS
Memory: 515324k/524224k available (1844k kernel code, 8512k reserved, 618k data, 120k init, 0k highmem)
Dentry cache hash table entries: 65536 (order: 7, 524288 bytes)
Inode cache hash table entries: 32768 (order: 6, 262144 bytes)
Mount cache hash table entries: 512 (order: 0, 4096 bytes)
Buffer cache hash table entries: 32768 (order: 5, 131072 bytes)
Page-cache hash table entries: 131072 (order: 7, 524288 bytes)
CPU: L1 I Cache: 64K (64 bytes/line), D cache 64K (64 bytes/line)
CPU: L2 Cache: 256K (64 bytes/line)
CPU: After generic, caps: 0383fbff c1c3fbff 00000000 00000000
CPU: Common caps: 0383fbff c1c3fbff 00000000 00000000
CPU: AMD Athlon(tm) XP 2000+ stepping 00
Enabling fast FPU save and restore... done.
Enabling unmasked SIMD FPU exception support... done.
Checking 'hlt' instruction... OK.
POSIX conformance testing by UNIFIX
mtrr: v1.40 (20010327) Richard Gooch (rgooch@atnf.csiro.au)
mtrr: detected mtrr type: Intel
PCI: PCI BIOS revision 2.10 entry at 0xf9ee0, last bus=1
PCI: Using configuration type 1
PCI: Probing PCI hardware
PCI: Probing PCI hardware (bus 00)
PCI: Using IRQ router default [1106/3189] at 00:00.0
Linux NET4.0 for Linux 2.4
Based upon Swansea University Computer Society NET3.039
Initializing RT netlink socket
Starting kswapd
VFS: Disk quotas vdquot_6.5.1
Journalled Block Device driver loaded
pty: 512 Unix98 ptys configured
Serial driver version 5.05c (2001-07-08) with HUB-6 MANY_PORTS MULTIPORT SHARE_IRQ SERIAL_PCI enabled
ttyS00 at 0x03f8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A
ttyS01 at 0x02f8 (irq = 3) is a 16550A
Real Time Clock Driver v1.10f
Floppy drive(s): fd0 is 1.44M
FDC 0 is a post-1991 82077
RAMDISK driver initialized: 16 RAM disks of 7777K size 1024 blocksize
loop: loaded (max 8 devices)
Uniform Multi-Platform E-IDE driver Revision: 7.00beta4-2.4
ide: Assuming 33MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with idebus=xx
VP_IDE: IDE controller at PCI slot 00:11.1
VP_IDE: chipset revision 6
VP_IDE: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later
VP_IDE: VIA vt8235 (rev 00) IDE UDMA133 controller on pci00:11.1
ide0: BM-DMA at 0xd400-0xd407, BIOS settings: hdaMA, hdbMA
ide1: BM-DMA at 0xd408-0xd40f, BIOS settings: hdcMA, hddMA
hdb: C/H/S=58853/16/255 from BIOS ignored
hda: Maxtor 6Y080L0, ATA DISK drive
hdb: Maxtor 6Y120P0, ATA DISK drive
blk: queue c03b3360, I/O limit 4095Mb (mask 0xffffffff)
blk: queue c03b349c, I/O limit 4095Mb (mask 0xffffffff)
hdc: LITE-ON LTR-48125S, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive
hdd: JLMS XJ-HD166S, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive
ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14
ide1 at 0x170-0x177,0x376 on irq 15
hda: attached ide-disk driver.
hda: host protected area => 1
hda: 160086528 sectors (81964 MB) w/2048KiB Cache, CHS=9964/255/63, UDMA(133)
hdb: attached ide-disk driver.
hdb: host protected area => 1
hdb: 240121728 sectors (122942 MB) w/7936KiB Cache, CHS=238216/16/63, UDMA(133)
Partition check:
hda: hda1 hda2 hda3 hda4
hdb: hdb1
SCSI subsystem driver Revision: 1.00
kmod: failed to exec /sbin/modprobe -s -k scsi_hostadapter, errno = 2
kmod: failed to exec /sbin/modprobe -s -k scsi_hostadapter, errno = 2
kmod: failed to exec /sbin/modprobe -s -k scsi_hostadapter, errno = 2
md: linear personality registered as nr 1
md: raid0 personality registered as nr 2
md: raid1 personality registered as nr 3
md: raid5 personality registered as nr 4
raid5: measuring checksumming speed
8regs : 2400.000 MB/sec
32regs : 1607.600 MB/sec
pIII_sse : 4546.800 MB/sec
pII_mmx : 3918.400 MB/sec
p5_mmx : 5006.400 MB/sec
raid5: using function: pIII_sse (4546.800 MB/sec)
md: md driver 0.90.0 MAX_MD_DEVS=256, MD_SB_DISKS=27
md: Autodetecting RAID arrays.
md: autorun ...
md: ... autorun DONE.
LVM version 1.0.8(17/11/2003)
Initializing Cryptographic API
NET4: Linux TCP/IP 1.0 for NET4.0
IP Protocols: ICMP, UDP, TCP, IGMP
IP: routing cache hash table of 4096 buckets, 32Kbytes
TCP: Hash tables configured (established 32768 bind 65536)
Linux IP multicast router 0.06 plus PIM-SM
NET4: Unix domain sockets 1.0/SMP for Linux NET4.0.
kjournald starting. Commit interval 5 seconds
EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode.
VFS: Mounted root (ext3 filesystem) readonly.
Freeing unused kernel memory: 120k freed
EXT3 FS 2.4-0.9.19, 19 August 2002 on ide0(3,3), internal journal
apm: BIOS version 1.2 Flags 0x07 (Driver version 1.16)
Linux agpgart interface v0.99 (c) Jeff Hartmann
agpgart: Maximum main memory to use for agp memory: 439M
agpgart: Detected Via Apollo Pro KT400 chipset
agpgart: AGP aperture is 128M @ 0xd0000000
hdc: attached ide-scsi driver.
hdd: attached ide-scsi driver.
scsi0 : SCSI host adapter emulation for IDE ATAPI devices
Vendor: LITE-ON Model: LTR-48125S Rev: 1S05
Type: CD-ROM ANSI SCSI revision: 02
Vendor: JLMS Model: XJ-HD166S Rev: DS1A
Type: CD-ROM ANSI SCSI revision: 02
Attached scsi CD-ROM sr0 at scsi0, channel 0, id 0, lun 0
Attached scsi CD-ROM sr1 at scsi0, channel 0, id 1, lun 0
sr0: scsi3-mmc drive: 48x/48x writer cd/rw xa/form2 cdda tray
Uniform CD-ROM driver Revision: 3.12
sr1: scsi3-mmc drive: 48x/48x cd/rw xa/form2 cdda tray
NTFS driver v1.1.22 [Flags: R/O MODULE]
kjournald starting. Commit interval 5 seconds
EXT3-fs warning: maximal mount count reached, running e2fsck is recommended
EXT3 FS 2.4-0.9.19, 19 August 2002 on ide0(3,65), internal journal
EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode.
Linux Kernel Card Services 3.1.22
options: [pci] [cardbus] [pm]
isapnp: Scanning for PnP cards...
isapnp: No Plug & Play device found
Intel ISA PCIC probe: not found.
Databook TCIC-2 PCMCIA probe: not found.
ds: no socket drivers loaded!
ohci1394: $Rev: 1045 $ Ben Collins <bcollins@debian.org>
ohci1394_0: OHCI-1394 1.0 (PCI): IRQ=[10] MMIO=[df007000-df0077ff] Max Packet=[2048]
8139too Fast Ethernet driver 0.9.26
eth0: RealTek RTL8139 at 0xe0880000, 00:20:ed:6a:73:eb, IRQ 11
eth0: Identified 8139 chip type 'RTL-8100B/8139D'
ieee1394: Host added: ID:BUS[0-00:1023] GUID[000020ed006d5ec5]
eth0: link down
PCI: Setting latency timer of device 00:11.5 to 64
usb.c: registered new driver usbdevfs
usb.c: registered new driver hub
ehci_hcd 00:10.3: VIA Technologies, Inc. USB 2.0
ehci_hcd 00:10.3: irq 11, pci mem e094f000
usb.c: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 1
ehci_hcd 00:10.3: USB 2.0 enabled, EHCI 1.00, driver 2003-Dec-29/2.4
hub.c: USB hub found
hub.c: 6 ports detected
uhci.c: USB Universal Host Controller Interface driver v1.1
uhci.c: USB UHCI at I/O 0xc800, IRQ 10
usb.c: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 2
hub.c: USB hub found
hub.c: 2 ports detected
uhci.c: USB UHCI at I/O 0xcc00, IRQ 10
usb.c: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 3
hub.c: USB hub found
hub.c: 2 ports detected
uhci.c: USB UHCI at I/O 0xd000, IRQ 11
usb.c: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 4
hub.c: USB hub found
hub.c: 2 ports detected
0: nvidia: loading NVIDIA Linux x86 NVIDIA Kernel Module 1.0-5336 Wed Jan 14 18:29:26 PST 2004
CSLIP: code copyright 1989 Regents of the University of California
PPP generic driver version 2.4.2
PPP BSD Compression module registered
PPP Deflate Compression module registered

Hi there,,

I think that you need to use badblocks to check your hda3 for bad blocks or damage,
details on the usage of this command can be found by typing man badblocks at the terminal

Im sorry but thats about the limit of my knowledge here,
anything else would be guesswork & I dont want to give you the wrong information.

(Now would be a good time for one of the more knowledgeable members to step in and offer assistance)