Marcelo Chiapparini wrote:
Dear list, I have installed etch in a new AMD64 machine. My problem is the following: after a very little activity in the Gnome desktop, the system freezes (even an open window terminal freezes) and only a hard rebootbring the system back. If during the boot I interrupt the window manager with ctrl+alt+f11 andswitch to a terminal, with alt+f1 for example, the system worksperfectly. The problem seem to be with the graphical interface.I ran memtest86+, and everything is ok, no error was reported. My system is the following: CPU: Athlon64 2043 MHz Mem: 1024 Mb Chipset: VIA K8T800 pro (Abit AV8 motherboarad) RAM: 204 MHz (DDR408) / CAS: 3-3-3-8 /DDR-1 (128 bits) Video card: ATI Radeon Mobility 9200 (AGP) I googled the internet and looked the debian arquives too (debian-user and debian-amd64), but I didn't find any clue. I will appreciate very much any help. Thanks in advance Marcelo
I recently purchased a Turion x64 dual core based HP laptop, and have loaded the AMD64 build of Debian stable (etch).
The system installed OK but on booting the newly installed system, it would freeze (hard) at unpredictable points.
After much googling, searching the HP FAQ's for their Debian support (not available for any laptops, but on servers - however, there are known issues with hangs like this), and so on, it looks like the problem is kernel support/interaction with the APIC system. The HP FAQ is here:
http://h20219.www2.hp.com/services/cache/442408-0-0-225-121.htmlNo way to tell if this is your issue or not. What worked for me, which at least lets me boot and use the system, was to add 'noapic' to the boot command line (I use grub, so that's in /boot/grub/menu.lst, similar edit for lilo with the 'append=noapic', IIRC).
There were other boot options mentioned (I don't have the details at hand, I'm sorry to say), but none of them helped in my case.
Hope this is helpful. Bob
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