On Friday 04 February 2011 18:12:50 Paul Hartman wrote:

> On Fri, Feb 4, 2011 at 10:36 AM, Peter Humphrey

> <peter@humphrey.ukfsn.org> wrote:

> > At the risk of hijacking the thread, this reminds me of a problem

> > on my workstation. It runs Gentoo fine (well, sluggishly) but when

> > I installed Fedora 14 to try it, I found the mouse and keyboard

> > freezing (but not the display) at random times that ranged from

> > one minute to several hours. When that happened I tried to log in

> > via SSH but got a no-route-to-host error. Then I remembered that

> > the same thing had happened months earlier with Mandriva.

> >

> > Anyone here have an idea? I've tried switching off everything I can

> > think of in the BIOS, but no joy. Temperatures are fine according

> > to gkrellm.

>

> Perhaps try a newer kernel version, if you can. I think there was one

> in 2.6.35 era that did that kind of stuff...

I'll look into that - thanks. Meanwhile, yesterday I even had a lockup while running from the live CD, so installing on this box is more a matter of luck than usual.

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Rgds

Peter. Linux Counter 5290, 1994-04-23.