PClinuxOS on HP Omnibook 6100

[batti3004]

Hi, i use PClinuxOS on my laptop a HP Omnibook 6100, i have a problem, pclinuxos freezes randomly, i dont know why. Plus the modem led is always on.

Specs: 1.13ghz cpu, 512mb ram, 16mb video.

What can i do to fix it?

[menotu]

Hi batti3004 - welcome to the forum.

Which version of PCLinuxOS are you running? KDE, Gnome, LXDE etc etc........?

Specs: 1.13ghz cpu, 512mb ram, 16mb video.

If you are running KDE (and possibly Gnome) those specs won't run them very well, especially the 16MB video card.

[rubentje1991]

EDIT: first please answer the post of menotu, maybe all things below aren't necessary!

First, Welcome to the Forum (post count of 1 indicates this  )

The next time your laptop freezes, can you check if the Numlock light / Caps Lock light / other lights are blinking (light on, light off, time in between about 1 second)?
=> would indicate a kernel panic

Something else you could do is (just after a freeze):
Open a Konsole (I assume you're using KDE4, in the future please always say what you use, because there are so many possibilities), and become super user by:

Code:

su            [ENTER]

and typing your password (you won't see any reaction on the screen while typing), following by [ENTER]
then:

Code:

tail -n 50 /var/log/messages [ENTER]

Copy that lines to a post here on the forum (please use the quote tags or the code tags for that)


Thanks


PS: I would put that modem led thing in a separate thread (one problem per thread, else we loose sight on things  )

[batti3004]

I use KDE, Xfce freezes too especially when i try to log out.

After it freezes all i can do is to move the mouse pointer.

[menotu]

Is this from the LiveCD or have you installed it (them) ?

If its from a LiveCD try using the VESA option at boot time.

If its an installed system, have you updated it via Synaptic? And rebooted?

But a 16mb video card is very small.  You could try the LXDE version - that version seems to run on lighter spec machines - also OpenBox may be worth a shot as that isn't so graphic intensive.

[batti3004]

Its installed and updated. Lxde wont work at all, it leves me in the cli.

It had the reset at boot problem, so i deleted /lib/modules/2.6.22-9-generic/kernel/drivers/char/hw_random/intel-rng.ko

Also i set the video driver to xorg ati that reduced the freezes also gave big a performance boost.

[menotu]

Its installed and updated. Lxde wont work at all, it leves me in the cli.

When you have KDE up and running have you been into PCC

(Configure Your Computer)  >> Hardware >> Configure Video Card >

to see which video driver you are using? 

It just might (might) work with a different driver

[batti3004]

It had the reset at boot problem, so i deleted /lib/modules/2.6.22-9-generic/kernel/drivers/char/hw_random/intel-rng.ko

Also i set the video driver to xorg ati that reduced the freezes also gave big a performance boost.

But i still get 1 or 2 freezes a day.

[menotu]

What kernel are you running?

[gandy]

I have LXDE running on an Omnibook 6000 (1GHZ 512MB RAM) with no problems. There may be a hardware problem with your laptop. Overheating maybe?

[batti3004]

kernel 2.6.33.76