Re: Debian Wheezy freezing

[Georgi Naplatanov <gosho@oles.biz>]

On 02/02/2013 01:36 PM, William Ivanski wrote:
> Hi  everybody,
>
> I have a Lenovo laptop, with CPU Intel Core i5, which I use to work.
> I installed Debian Wheezy and the system freezes randomly. No response
> to keyboard or mouse clicks, just mouse moves. Needed to restart all the
> times.
>
> I searched a lot about this problem, and many people suggest the
> installation of a newer kernel (current is 3.2).
> Currently, on kernel.org, stable release is 3.7.5.
>
> I never compiled a kernel before, so I am afraid of the problems it
> might create. I'm worried about virtualbox, which I installed through
> aptitude.
> I'm also considering upgrade to Debian unstable branch. It have a kernel
> newer than 3.2, doesn't it?
>
> So my questions are:
>
> 1) Which is better? Keep Debian Wheezy and compile a new kernel, or
> upgrade to Debian Sid?
> 2) Have you guys compiled a kernel before? How it was? Can you provide
> me a good tutorial about it?
>
> Any help will be much appreciated.
>
> Regards,
> Will

Hi William,

as maybe you know Wheezy has been prepared to become a stable so with 
some exceptions Sid doesn't contain newer packages, only bug fixes.

Compiling newer kernel is a time consuming operation and you have to 
know a lot about your hardware and kernel options.

In my opinion you may do the following:

- try to identify the problem e.g. look in the log files for errors and 
if you find something wrong, report it to debian community
- install another Linux distribution with newer packages and test your 
hardware with newer software packages
- try to compile and install newer linux kernel yourself.

Best regards
Georgi