On Wed, Jan 9, 2013 at 2:02 PM, valent.turkovic(a)gmail.com <
valent.turkovic(a)gmail.com> wrote:
On Mon, Jan 7, 2013 at 2:56 PM, Gordon Messmer
<yinyang(a)eburg.com> wrote:
> Google results for "xorg hangs Sandybridge i915" turn up a whole lot of
> results (sadly). Among the first page results is one report that a bad
> BIOS was responsible for the problem. Have you updated yours?
>
I haven't updated my bios, will do that right now if there is newer
version available.
Updated bios to latest version...
Has this system ever run a Linux distribution that didn't
hang/crash?
>
Nope, only Fedora 16 and now 17.
> It may be useful to configure kdump on your system to see if that can
> capture the cause of the crash.
>
Any pointers on how to configure kdump?
Thank a lot for these tips!
Found these instructions:
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/How_to_use_kdump_to_debug_kernel_crashes
And updated to kernel 3.8 rc2 from rawhide and enabled kdump on that
kernel... trap is set, now I wait eagerly ;)
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