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#1 2008-01-19 03:15:10

arialth
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Registered: 2008-01-19
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System "spaces out"?!

Hey, I have recently installed Arch Linux on my dv9420us HP laptop (amd 2.2 ghz 64, nvidia geforce go 6150, broadcom bcm4310 UART, 2 gb ram) and i am experiencing some very odd problems running the system.

I have edited the basic configuration files (uncommented en_US.UTF-8 in /etc/locale.gen and stuff) and set up dhcp for my ethernet connection, and i had everything just the way i wanted it to be working from TTY1. However, after about 2 and a half minutes of being up, the system decided it no longer wishes to respond. The command i might be running at the time just HALTS with the blinking cursor, and while i can switch to other tty's, i cannot login because as soon as i type in a name and hot enter, nothing happens.
This is, as you might imagine, a very annoying thing to have happen in the middle of downloading packages for Xorg... and now, when i reboot and try to run 'pacman -S xorg' i get an error about the sync being out of date, and it gives it to me even after i run a database update from pacman. Then it crashes more. This is very frustrating to me.
I am not NEW to linux, having been using it for about a year and a half, but i still do NOT know how to fix this. I have recently switched from Ubuntu 7.04, which gave me an UNGODLY amount of errors and bugs and problems and eventually decided not to boot at all, even from a base install. I had these problems on Ubuntu also: from a TTY, the system would mysteriously hang. I never found out what it was, but I REALLY need to know how to fix it, because i simply can NOT stay with M$ Vista ... it hogs too many resources. I do want to give arch a try, but i NEED help fixing these meaningless crashes. I am pretty sure that, without this one problem, i can figure everything else i need to out... i just need help with this one thing

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#2 2008-01-19 03:23:14

underpenguin
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Registered: 2007-02-01
Posts: 116

Re: System "spaces out"?!

My main machine is a dv6000 with a amd turion 64, Nvidia 6150go, presumably the same mobo chipset. I don't have any problems, but I do have to use the noapic option (append noapic to your menu.lst kernel lines). Without this I get random freezing. The fact that both distros had this issue really makes me think this may be the problem.

O/t: My lappy shipped with vista, and there are no drivers for XP on the hp support site. You can find drivers for XP for it, though, if you look around a bit, so if this doesn't work maybe we can find some of those.

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#3 2008-01-19 03:45:16

arialth
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Registered: 2008-01-19
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Re: System "spaces out"?!

Well, after the stuff i have heard about M$ putting a faulty PRNG algorithm into Vista SP1 i am no longer inclined to trust them at all, even though i had little trust before.

I do have apic disabled, i had to in order to get the system to even boot. On ubuntu when i tried this, i recall that it died... but it does work on arch.

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#4 2008-01-20 05:25:53

arialth
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Registered: 2008-01-19
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Re: System "spaces out"?!

I did further research and experimenting and I discovered that the system, at least in Arch, only crashes WHEN I USE PACMAN. Otherwise, everything runs smoothly. But as soon as i run pacman, everything locks up. Is there a fix for this?

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