Suse 10.1 Hangs

[tja01]

I installed supported Suse 10.1 from a CD and have nothing but trouble. The OS hangs intermittently for no apparent reason forcing me to do a hard reset.

1) Is there a syslog I can check to see what might be trapping/throwing exceptions?

2) Anyone else having/had this issue?

[devils casper]

Hi and Welcome !

Do Mouse and Keyboard work when system hang?

Execute this

dmesg | less

Check if it lists any error message.
Which Graphics Card do you have? Did you install Video Driver?

[tja01]

I executed the command you gave me but there were no error messages.

To answer your questions:

1) Yes, the mouse and keyboard both freeze. That's why I have to reset the computer using the reset button.

2) My video card is VIA Technologies, Inc.
Model: UniChrome Pro IGP

3) I didn't install a driver.

[devils casper]

Log in as root and open /etc/X11/xorg.conf file.
Set value of Video Driver to "vesa".
Something like this:

 
Section "Device"
     BoardName    "xxxx"
     BusID        "1:0:0"
     Driver       "vesa"
     Identifier   "Device[0]"
     VendorName   "xxxxxx"
EndSection

Edit Driver line only. It could be "via" in your xorg.conf file. Set that to "vesa".
Save file and reboot machine.

[tja01]

Well it looks like this:

Section "Device"
BoardName "Framebuffer Graphics"
BusID "1:0:0"
Driver "fbdev"
Identifier "Device[0]"
VendorName "VESA"
EndSection

I'll try changing the driver to VESA and see how it works out....