Freezing after booting up

[Billie]

Re: Freezing after booting up

It still locks up after it loads the desktop and the keyboard and mouse don't work. I done the sudo aptitude -f full-upgrade. They installed but it still locks up.

[flarson]

Re: Freezing after booting up

If I understand your current situation you have installed Jaunty 9.04 and run
sudo aptitude update
and
sudo aptitude -f full-upgrade
And both are completing successfully with no errors. You should do that at least once a say until Jaunty is released. But now your system is behaving exactly as it did when you first posted. That is, it goes through the startup, and after it starts to play the system sound it locks up, with no response to keyboard or mouse. Is that true?

Does the sound finish before it locks up or does it stop in the middle of the sound?

We need some info here. Please run lspci and post the output.

[Billie]

Re: Freezing after booting up

Yes that is correct and the sound finishes then the hard-drive activity light stays on and the keyboard and mouse don't work. How do I run the ispci that you wanted me to run ?

[flarson]

Re: Freezing after booting up

You should reboot and select the rescue option. You might have to hit ESC to get a grub menu and then the rescue kernel. Then choose "root shell with network". This will get you to a text terminal from which you can run commands. Run
lspci
which stands for list PCI components. That should tell me what hardware you have. When you get to a terminal you could also look in /var/log/syslog to see if it is showing some errors. To do that you would run
sudo less /var/log/syslog
In less you can page down with space bar, page up with b, up and down arrows should work also. q will quit less. This file may be quite large and you will probably want to go all the way to the end.

You might see something like "drive not ready" and it might be there a lot of times.

[Billie]

Re: Freezing after booting up

This is what the list read.
00:00.0 Host bridge :VIA Technologies,Inc.. VT8601 (Apollo ProMedia) (rev 05)
00:01.0 PCI bridge: VIA Technologies,Inc. VT8601 (Apollo ProMedia AGP)
00:07.0 ISA bridge: VIA Technologies,Inc. VT82C686 (Apollo Super South) (rev 22)
00:07.1 IDE interface : VIA Technologies,Inc. (VT82C586A/B/VT82C686/A/B/VT823x/A/C PIPC Bus Master IDE (rev 10)
00:07.2 USB Controller : VIA Technologies,Inc. VT82xxxxx UHCI USB 1.1 Controller (rev 10)
00:07.3 USB Controller: VIA Technologies,Inc. VT82xxxxx UHCI USB 1.1 Controller (rev 10)
00:07.4 Bridge: VIA Technologies,Inc. VT82C686 (Apollo Super ACPI) (rev 30)
00:07.5 Multimedia audio controller: VIA Technologies,Inc. VT82C686 AC97 Audio Controller (rev 20)
00:08.0 Multimedia audio controller: C-Media Electronics Inc. CM8738 (rev 10)
00:0a.0 Ethernet controller: ADMtek NC100 Network Everywhere Fast Ethernet 10/100 (rev 11)
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: Trident Microsystems CyberBlade/i1 (rev 6a)
That is everything that list showed.

[flarson]

Re: Freezing after booting up

It is quite likely that you display adapter
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: Trident Microsystems CyberBlade/i1 (rev 6a)
is the problem. Searching for "Trident Microsystems CyberBlade X support" brings up numerous hits, most old and all that I saw claiming partial success at best.

You might have some success trying to reduce the load on the display, set color at 16 bit, keep resolution low, maybe 800x600, disable all effects.

How much RAM does you system have?

I have run Jaunty on a Pentium 450 with 320 MB of RAM and a TNT2 32MB video card. Your system should be better than that if you have enough RAM, except you display adapter which is problematic for Linux/X. You might be able to find a local person who has an AGP 4x card that is going unused.

[Billie]

Re: Freezing after booting up

How can I set the display setting without going into the control panel?

[flarson]

Re: Freezing after booting up

You have to work with the xorg.conf file. It is located at /etc/X11/xorg.conf. You are probably most interested in a DefaultDepth option although you could use modelines to reduce the resolution. If you have a more capable monitor than you have display adapter this might be useful.

You will find much information searching this forum for Powerstrip, which is a utility for generating modelines, but the post has much else in it. Search on Google for xorg.conf and you will find many examples.

Good luck.

[Billie]

Re: Freezing after booting up

I got an fatal error, The application KNotify (knotify4) crashed and caused the signal 11 (SIGSEGV).

[Billie]

Re: Freezing after booting up

I've downloaded the RC version and I am in the process of installing the OS.

[Billie]

Re: Freezing after booting up

It is still doing the same-thing. I ran sudo aptitude update and sudo aptitude -f full-upgrade and got all of the updates with no errors. It loads the desktop and the startup sound plays all the way thru. I'm trying to find an PCI video card to put it in to see if the problem goes away. I will post after I get the PCI card. I'll get it Monday afternoon. Thanks for all of your help.