I have an old Toshiba A56 Satellite laptop computer. It was
freezing in Windows and driving the employee nuts. I
installed 8.04 LTS on it and it never froze up in the year
and a half it was running 8.04 LTS. I have now upgraded it
to 10.04 LTS. To get video to work I use the i915.modeset=1
xforcevesa however now if the user logs off and the computer
sits idle for an extended period of time it will freeze. I
can not find the specs for the computer anywhere but the A55
has Intel Extreme Graphics so maybe it is the same. Does
anyone have suggestions for a different video setting to try
that might work better? For now I have just told the user to
shutdown rather than log off as a work around, since so far
it only freezes on the login screen.

Thanks
Linda

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On 17/01/2011 00:33, Linda wrote:
I have an old Toshiba A56 Satellite laptop computer. It was freezing
in Windows and driving the employee nuts. I installed 8.04 LTS on it
and it never froze up in the year and a half it was running 8.04 LTS.
I have now upgraded it to 10.04 LTS. To get video to work I use the
i915.modeset=1 xforcevesa however now if the user logs off and the
computer sits idle for an extended period of time it will freeze. I
can not find the specs for the computer anywhere but the A55 has Intel
Extreme Graphics so maybe it is the same. Does anyone have suggestions
for a different video setting to try that might work better? For now I
have just told the user to shutdown rather than log off as a work
around, since so far it only freezes on the login screen.

Thanks
Linda


I don't have an answer but only a question: are you sure that it is
'freezing' or simply going into something like hibernation[1]? (and when
it does "freeze" what do you do to "unfreeze" it"?) [Another question
while I think of it :-) : was this upgrade a fresh install or an upgrade
in the true sense (via the Update Manger)?


BC

[1] What's set in System>Preferences>Screensaver>PowerManagement?

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On 01/16/2011 11:54 PM, Basil Chupin wrote:

On 17/01/2011 00:33, Linda wrote:
I have an old Toshiba A56 Satellite laptop computer. It
was freezing in Windows and driving the employee nuts. I
installed 8.04 LTS on it and it never froze up in the
year and a half it was running 8.04 LTS. I have now
upgraded it to 10.04 LTS. To get video to work I use the
i915.modeset=1 xforcevesa however now if the user logs
off and the computer sits idle for an extended period of
time it will freeze. I can not find the specs for the
computer anywhere but the A55 has Intel Extreme Graphics
so maybe it is the same. Does anyone have suggestions for
a different video setting to try that might work better?
For now I have just told the user to shutdown rather than
log off as a work around, since so far it only freezes on
the login screen.

Thanks
Linda


I don't have an answer but only a question: are you sure
that it is 'freezing' or simply going into something like
hibernation[1]? (and when it does "freeze" what do you do
to "unfreeze" it"?) [Another question while I think of it
:-) : was this upgrade a fresh install or an upgrade in
the true sense (via the Update Manger)?


BC

[1] What's set in
System>Preferences>Screensaver>PowerManagement?


It was a clean install. When it freezes it will not respond
to keyboard, or mouse, nor can you ssh in so I have to turn
off the power and reboot
The laptop is always plugged in since the battery will not
hold a charge. The power management shows Put to sleep -
never, when lid is shut - shutdown, Turn off display after
30 min. I did change this to never, maybe it could solve the
problem.

Linda

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On Mon, Jan 17, 2011 at 10:01 AM, Linda <haniganwork@earthlink.net> wrote:

On 01/16/2011 11:54 PM, Basil Chupin wrote:


On 17/01/2011 00:33, Linda wrote:


I have an old Toshiba A56 Satellite laptop computer. It was freezing in Windows and driving the employee nuts. I installed 8.04 LTS on it and it never froze up in the year and a half it was running 8.04 LTS. I have now upgraded it to 10.04 LTS. To get video to work I use the i915.modeset=1 xforcevesa however now if the user logs off and the computer sits idle for an extended period of time it will freeze. I can not find the specs for the computer anywhere but the A55 has Intel Extreme Graphics so maybe it is the same. Does anyone have suggestions for a different video setting to try that might work better? For now I have just told the user to shutdown rather than log off as a work around, since so far it only freezes on the login screen.


Thanks

Linda




I don't have an answer but only a question: are you sure that it is 'freezing' or simply going into something like hibernation[1]? (and when it does "freeze" what do you do to "unfreeze" it"?) [Another question while I think of it :-) : was this upgrade a fresh install or an upgrade in the true sense (via the Update Manger)?




BC



[1] What's set in System>Preferences>Screensaver>PowerManagement?




It was a clean install. When it freezes it will not respond to keyboard, or mouse, nor can you ssh in so I have to turn off the power and reboot

The laptop is always plugged in since the battery will not hold a charge. The power management shows *Put to sleep - never, when lid is shut - shutdown, Turn off display after 30 min. I did change this to never, maybe it could solve the problem.


* * * * * * * * * * Linda



Have you checked /var/log/Xorg.(n).log to see if it really is xorg crashing, also see if xorg is really using vesa not intel there too. I say this because most freeze ups are graphics related and this could be a 3d screensaver invoking before hibernate/suspend timeout occurs.

Dave
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