Lenova G430 hangs once in a while

[nujinini]

Hi Guys,

I am also experiencing more or less the same issues on my fedora 10. my laptop lenovo G430 would hang once in a while. the mouse would move but the buttons does not work. i try to open the terminal to no avail. have tried the ctrl+alt+backspace. i even tried the 'raising skinny elephants..." approach but still since the keyboards does not respond i don't get anywhere. so the ultimate solution....i have to put off the power and boot. another issue is that i have to boot twice ssince the first boot, it would end up in a blank black page with a blinking line...but with no other information, i hope you guys can share something that i can use to resolve this issue.

thanks in advance...

[devils casper]

Hi Guys,

I am also experiencing more or less the same issues on my fedora 10. my laptop lenovo G430 would hang once in a while. the mouse would move but the buttons does not work. i try to open the terminal to no avail. have tried the ctrl+alt+backspace. i even tried the 'raising skinny elephants..." approach but still since the keyboards does not respond i don't get anywhere. so the ultimate solution....i have to put off the power and boot. another issue is that i have to boot twice ssince the first boot, it would end up in a blank black page with a blinking line...but with no other information, i hope you guys can share something that i can use to resolve this issue.

thanks in advance...

It looks like a Graphics Card problem only. Which Graphics Card do you have? Which Graphics Driver are you using?

su -
lspci | grep -i vga
grep -i driver /etc/X11/xorg.conf

Post output here.

[nujinini]

It looks like a Graphics Card problem only. Which Graphics Card do you have? Which Graphics Driver are you using?

su -
lspci | grep -i vga
grep -i driver /etc/X11/xorg.conf

Post output here.

hello,
here are the results...
thanks...

Password:
[root@localhost nujinini]# lspci | grep -i vga
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation Mobile 4 Series Chipset Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 07)
[root@localhost nujinini]# grep -i driver /etc/X11/xorg.conf
grep: /etc/X11/xorg.conf: No such file or directory

[devils casper]

hello,
here are the results...
thanks...

Password:
[root@localhost nujinini]# lspci | grep -i vga
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation Mobile 4 Series Chipset Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 07)
[root@localhost nujinini]# grep -i driver /etc/X11/xorg.conf
grep: /etc/X11/xorg.conf: No such file or directory

Execute this

su -
nano /etc/X11/xorg.conf

Add this :

Section "Monitor"
	Identifier   "Monitor0"
	ModelName    "Monitor 1024x768"
	HorizSync    30.0 - 71.0
	VertRefresh  50.0 - 160.0
	Option	    "dpms"
EndSection

Section "Device"
	Identifier  "Videocard0"
	Driver      "vesa"
EndSection

Section "Screen"
	Identifier "Screen0"
	Device     "Videocard0"
	Monitor    "Monitor0"
	DefaultDepth     24
	SubSection "Display"
		Depth     24
		Modes    "1280x1024" "1024x768" "800x600" 
	EndSubSection
EndSection

Press Ctrl+X, Y and hit Enter key to save file. Reboot machine.

[nujinini]

Execute this

su -
nano /etc/X11/xorg.conf

Add this :

Section "Monitor"
	Identifier   "Monitor0"
	ModelName    "Monitor 1024x768"
	HorizSync    30.0 - 71.0
	VertRefresh  50.0 - 160.0
	Option	    "dpms"
EndSection

Section "Device"
	Identifier  "Videocard0"
	Driver      "vesa"
EndSection

Section "Screen"
	Identifier "Screen0"
	Device     "Videocard0"
	Monitor    "Monitor0"
	DefaultDepth     24
	SubSection "Display"
		Depth     24
		Modes    "1280x1024" "1024x768" "800x600" 
	EndSubSection
EndSection

Press Ctrl+X, Y and hit Enter key to save file. Reboot machine.

hello...

i did the above and after i rebooted...all i got was a bright white screen. it responded though to ctrl+alt+F4..in the terminal...i executed the nano /etc/X11/xorg.conf again and erased all...afterwhich..saved, enter, reboot and everything is now back to normal...

[devils casper]

Try this now.
Remove "1280x1024" from Modes line and set Driver "i810" instead of "vesa".

[nujinini]

Try this now.
Remove "1280x1024" from Modes line and set Driver "i810" instead of "vesa".

hi again,

i did the above and this time i got a black screen with a blinking cursor. i was able to get out though by the same path earlier when i tried the first suggestion. thanks.....)

[Rubberman]

Try this now.
Remove "1280x1024" from Modes line and set Driver "i810" instead of "vesa".

hi again,

i did the above and this time i got a black screen with a blinking cursor. i was able to get out though by the same path earlier when i tried the first suggestion. thanks.....)

I would suggest that you try to let X configure the xorg.conf file for you. If you run Xorg -configure from the command line as root then the X server will probe the system video hardware and write out /etc/X11/xorg.conf with the information it gathers. This is from the Xorg man page:

-configure
When this option is specified, the Xorg server loads all video driver
modules, probes for available hardware, and writes out an initial
xorg.conf(5x) file based on what was detected. This option currently
has some problems on some platforms, but in most cases it is a good
way to bootstrap the configuration process. This option is only
available when the server is run as root (i.e, with real-uid 0).

[nujinini]

I would suggest that you try to let X configure the xorg.conf file for you. If you run Xorg -configure from the command line as root then the X server will probe the system video hardware and write out /etc/X11/xorg.conf with the information it gathers. This is from the Xorg man page:

-configure
When this option is specified, the Xorg server loads all video driver
modules, probes for available hardware, and writes out an initial
xorg.conf(5x) file based on what was detected. This option currently
has some problems on some platforms, but in most cases it is a good
way to bootstrap the configuration process. This option is only
available when the server is run as root (i.e, with real-uid 0).

hello rubberman..
thanks man. i tried the above suggestion and got the following result:

Password:
[root@localhost ~]# Xorg -configure

Fatal server error:
Server is already active for display 0
If this server is no longer running, remove /tmp/.X0-lock
and start again.

[Rubberman]

You have to run it in text mode. Edit /etc/inittab and change the line that says "id:5:initdefault:" to "id:3:initdefault" and reboot. That boots into runlevel 3 and will not automatically start the X server for logins. Then run the following commands from the command line:

1. Xorg -configure
2. startx

If it works OK, then edit /etc/inittab again, and change the runlevel back to 5, the original setting.