Laptop DV8 freezes

[kooldude]

Good Day everyone,

I am still a newbie when it comes to Linux. I have a HP DV8T laptop and I installed Mageia 64bit Linux. Intially ran into wireless driver problem. Connected the laptop to a wired network and enabled all the repos and updated. Then went into MCC -> Network -> Create new connection and created a wireless network.

Now I ran into a weird problem. The systems runs fine for a few mins and then everything freezes. No mouse or keyboard. I have to do a hard reset. Please help. Is there any log file that contains any additional information that will help in fixing this problem. I will post that info if it helps.

I did google and searched the forums and did not come across any posts or people having similar issues.

Regards,

[doktor5000]

Shot in the dark, are you using flash player plugin by any chance?

As for log files, you can look into either /var/log/messages or /var/log/syslog, but such hard lockups
normally happen so, that the computer locks up before the log daemon can write to the logs.

[kooldude]

Hi doktor5000,

Thanks for the quick reply. The lockups seem to happen with out any firefox windows open. I will look into /var/log/messages or /var/log/syslog if there are any log files.

If the lockups are related to the flash player plugin what would be my solution?

Regards,

[doktor5000]

Please also show the output

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rpm -qa | grep flash

and

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rpm -qa | grep nspluginwrapper

I have encountered similar freezes myself, when nspluginwrapper was installed, the flash plugin is not directly the cause, only in combination.

Also please show the output of

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lspci -k | grep VGA -A3

and

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lspcidrake -v | grep NET

so that we can
see which graphics card and wireless chip you have and which driver is used for those.

Have you run other operation systems on this laptop before, and did it work flawlessly there?