Re: [Hampshire] Intermittent freeze-up with Ubuntu 7.10

> Message: 17
> Date: Tue, 22 Jan 2008 08:51:31 +0000
> From: Alan Pope <alan@???>
> Subject: Re: [Hampshire] Intermittent freeze-up with Ubuntu 7.10
> On Mon, Jan 21, 2008 at 11:46:29PM +0000, Imran Chaudhry wrote:
> > Occaisonally my Ubuntu 7.10 Gutsy Desktop PC will freeze for no
> > apparant reason. There does not seem to be a pattern to it. What will
> > normally happen is that the window/app I am working in will turn grey
> > as if taking a long time to respond. During this time the Desktop will
> > not accept any input from me and I can even see the system monitor
> > graph freeze up in the taskbar.
> >
>
> Window going grey says to me you're running compiz, and thus are using a
> funky 3d driver. Maybe disable compiz first. Then if it still happens switch
> video driver?

Thanks for all your replies geezers. Forgot to follow up to this.

Yep - the problem seems to be worse with "Appearance" settings on
"Extra", less worse when set on "Normal" and no problems so far with
"None".

A shame as I find the "Normal" setting a nice trade-off between bling
and usability. I'm running with the nVidia proprietary driver
("nvidia") and will try the GPL Nvidia driver ("nv"). I will report
back here about it later.

So it looks like it wasn't the HDD cable as I suspected. In this Asus
Pundit though the SATA HDD connector is rather short and I found it
easy to dislodge. I've discovered recently that a loose HDD cable
causes more serious and apparant problems!

Cheers,
Imran