oleksandr korneta wrote:
I have Compaq Presario v2404us (consider it HP) Turion based. FC6
x86_64 installed. Is is equipped with ATI Radeon Express 200M
videodapter which I use with opensource drivers. I experience regular
daily crashes (1-2 times per day) with kernel panic (blinking CapsLock
led, darks screen, non-responsive system). I did not notice any
correlation between the crashes and my activity on this laptop, it can
happen equally under heavy load as well as right after waking up the
machine from the suspend mode.
kernel version 2.6.19-1.2895.fc6
familiar symptoms huh?
note, I did not have such problem using FC4 on this machine for the
whole year.
because of kernel panic, I assume I can't catch any output in the log
files about the cause, can I?
I have an HP Pavilion dv8135nr with the AMD Turion chip , an ATI 200M
video, and the Broadcom AirForce One 54g wireless NIC. Until recently,
I had the same problem as you - My FC6 box would randomly freeze (AND my
wireless connection was unstable). I made some changes and have not had
a crash or a system hiccup since then (Jan 24, 2007).
I may have stumbled on the solution through blind luck. First, via my
local LUG, I was given the xorg.conf (listed below) to use. The author
who turned me on to this used ATI's newest proprietary driver, but I am
using the radeon driver included with xorg. He mentioned that he found
two areas which are "must haves" in the xorg.conf. They are:
SubSection "extmod"
Option "omit xfree86-dga"
EndSubSection
and
Option "MaxGARTSize" "128"
He also mentioned that turning off the video shared memory in the bios
is critical as well.
Well, I did all that and viola! I *still* had random crashes...
needless to say I was very disappointed.
I also have been having problems with my wireless randomly dropping the
signal and not (easily) connecting and reconnecting... so I started to
research that problem. I will preface my solution by mentioning that I
use ndiswrapper and I typically use the most current ndiswrapper source
to build rpm's (I am currently using v1.34). I "assumed" the problem
was the driver and looked for a "new and improved" AirForce One driver.
I discovered there was a new driver which fixed a security problem and
tried it... *Still* no luck... After searching the ndiswrapper site,
I discovered another AirForce One driver and tried it...
*And it worked!* My wireless connects easily and does not randomly drop
connections.
And guess what... now my HP Pavilion with the ATI 200M is *not*
randomly crashing...
Here is my crash-free setup (caveat: I do not have 3D capability)
Broadcom Driver Location:
ftp://ftp.hp.com/pub/softpaq/sp33001-33500/sp33008.exe ***note: extract
using cabextract
Ndiswrapper driver v1.34:
http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=93482&package_id=99148
***note: current version is 1.37
I am using the radeon driver provided by xorg and listed below is my
xorg.conf file.
I hope this helps someone... if it works, please provide feedback.
***** xorg.conf *****
# Xorg configuration created by system-config-display
Section "ServerLayout"
Identifier "single head configuration"
Screen 0 "aticonfig-Screen[0]" 0 0
InputDevice "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
InputDevice "Synaptics" "CorePointer"
EndSection
Section "Module"
Load "dbe"
SubSection "extmod"
Option "omit xfree86-dga"
EndSubSection
Load "glx"
Load "fbdevhw"
Load "v4l"
Load "record"
Load "freetype"
Load "type1"
Load "synaptics"
Load "dri"
EndSection
Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Keyboard0"
Driver "kbd"
Option "XkbModel" "pc105"
Option "XkbLayout" "us"
EndSection
Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Mouse0"
Driver "mouse"
Option "Protocol" "IMPS/2"
Option "Device" "/dev/input/mice"
Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
Option "Emulate3Buttons" "yes"
EndSection
Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Synaptics"
Driver "synaptics"
Option "Device" "/dev/input/mice"
Option "Protocol" "auto-dev"
Option "Emulate3Buttons" "yes"
Option "SHMConfig" "on"
EndSection
Section "Monitor"
### Comment all HorizSync and VertSync values to use DDC:
Identifier "aticonfig-Monitor[0]"
ModelName "LCD Panel 1920x1200"
### Comment all HorizSync and VertSync values to use DDC:
HorizSync 31.5 - 90.0
VertRefresh 59.9 - 60.1
Option "DPMS" "true"
EndSection
Section "Device"
Identifier "aticonfig-Device[0]"
Driver "radeon"
BoardName "ATI Technologies Inc ATI Radeon XPRESS 200M 5955 (PCIE)"
Option "DesktopSetup" "clone"
Option "MaxGARTSize" "128"
Option "ForceMonitors" "notv"
Option "VideoOverlay" "on"
EndSection
Section "Screen"
Identifier "aticonfig-Screen[0]"
Device "aticonfig-Device[0]"
Monitor "aticonfig-Monitor[0]"
DefaultDepth 24
SubSection "Display"
Viewport 0 0
Depth 24
Modes "1440x900" "1400x1050" "1280x1024" "1280x960"
"1280x800" "1152x864" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
EndSubSection
EndSection
Section "DRI"
Group 0
Mode 0666
EndSection
***** xorg.conf *****
--
Ken Nordquist
"Did I Do That?!"
