Crashing problems with ubuntu 9.04 + old laptop

[kurremise]

Is there way to update the 9.04 system more stable? Sometimes my ubuntu 9.04 freezes totally while for example surfing.

I'm quite new with linux and i have to tell that ubuntu 9.04 was the only version wich i got working on my laptop(fujitsu siemens amilo). 10.10 didn't install and hardware didn't work with 9.10.

Otherwise everythings works very fine. I think the problem might be the torrent - download software that makes the system freeze sometimes. Also might be some issue with firefox.

Thanks,
kurremise

[devils casper]

Post your machine's specs here.
Which Graphics Card do you have?

Post output of these commands :

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

[kurremise]

My graphic card is some ATI radeon card..

allmost 1 gig ram and Intel Celeron processor.

df -h
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda1 224G 4,4G 209G 3% /
tmpfs 943M 0 943M 0% /lib/init/rw
varrun 943M 108K 943M 1% /var/run
varlock 943M 0 943M 0% /var/lock
udev 943M 140K 943M 1% /dev
tmpfs 943M 88K 943M 1% /dev/shm
lrm 943M 2,4M 941M 1% /lib/modules/2.6.28-11-generic/volatile

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grep -i driver /etc/X11/xorg.conf

---- nothing ---

lspci | grep -i vga
01:05.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc RC410 [Radeon Xpress 200M]

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Could install ATI catalyst center, a linux version, but i don't know would it help... When i have more time i'll get to solving this...

And one more thing!
I plugged in Canon EOS camera, but i cannot "read" it with linux. In windows i can just normally go and copy paste all the images to hard-drive. Linux detecs the camera and see's that it is Canon EOS something but cannot open it... Some error message occurs "cannot lock camera" or something.