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sreeni

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Registered: 2021-12-28

Posts: 1

Browser freezing up entire system

Hi

I recently installed Arch(xfce) on my dell 1420 circa 2007 model.  Parts of the output of lshw are appended at the end of this post. 

Install went thru fine and the system works fine except for the browser.  I deliberately use the word "browser" becasue the behaviour is exactly the same whether it is firefox or midori or a couple of other browsers I have tried.  When browsing any site the page loads upto about 90% (I am estimating this based on the progress of the bluebar on the browser) and then freezes there.  At this point neither the keyboard nor the mouse works anymore.  Even the REISUB is of no use.  I have to unplug the power to the laptop to shut it down.  Thanks in advance for guidance on troubleshooting.  I am not a newbie but my commandline skills are very basic.  So detailed instructions would be much appreciated. 

description: Portable Computer
    product: Inspiron 1420
    vendor: Dell Inc.
    serial: 81XXS1S
    width: 64 bits
   
*-firmware
          description: BIOS
          vendor: Dell Inc.
          physical id: 0
          version: A10
          date: 12/19/2008
          size: 64KiB
          capacity: 1MiB

*-cpu
          description: CPU
          product: Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo CPU     T7250  @ 2.00GHz
          vendor: Intel Corp.
          physical id: 400
          bus info: cpu@0
          slot: Microprocessor
          size: 1004MHz
          capacity: 2001MHz
          width: 64 bits
          clock: 200MHz
     
     *-memory
          description: System Memory
          physical id: 1000
          slot: System board or motherboard
          size: 2GiB

           *-display
                description: VGA compatible controller
                product: G86M [GeForce 8400M GS]
                vendor: NVIDIA Corporation
                physical id: 0
                bus info: pci@0000:01:00.0
                version: a1
                width: 64 bits
                clock: 33MHz
                capabilities: pm msi pciexpress vga_controller bus_master cap_list rom
                configuration: driver=nouveau latency=0
                resources: irq:25 memory:fd000000-fdffffff memory:e0000000-efffffff memory:fa000000-fbffffff ioport:ef00(size=128) memory:c0000-dffff

Trilby

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Registered: 2011-11-29

Posts: 30,493

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Re: Browser freezing up entire system

Welcome to the forums.  Please edit your post and add [ code ] tags around the lshw output (see the BBCode link under the post text box to learn more).

On the issue, does it matter what website you try to visit?  Can you `curl` the website content to a local file?  If so, can the browser render that local file?

What video drivers are you using?  Can you post the content of an Xorg log (in code tags) after you restart from one of these freezes?

Have you installed and configured your bootloader to load the intel-ucode?

Last edited by Trilby (2021-12-28 17:37:23)

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