frequent lockups!

[jinx099]

I'm wantiong to convert from Ubuntu to Fedora Core 6, but I'm having serious problems with it, problems which do not exist for me in Ubuntu 6.10. First of all, here are my system specs:

Intel e6300 @ 2.8 GHz
Gigabyte 965P-DS3
evga 7900 GS
SATA2 hard drive
2GB Patriot DDR2

The first lockups that happened were when I had the nVidia drivers from livna installed. Out of nowhere, everything would just freeze, mouse, windows, everything. The keyboard was also completely unresponsive, I could not do ctrl-alt-backspace for example. I was told by a member of these forums that adding a few kernel options would solve the issue. I tried it, but still got lockups. However, this time, I could control the mouse, just not click on anything.

So then I uninstalled the nvidia drivers and went to the nv driver. However, I still get the same lockups as before, where the mouse can move but not anythign else. Also, when doing a ctrl-alt-backspace, it just goes to a blank screen.

So this issue is a showstopper for me. Ubuntu and Windows XP work flawlessly on this hardware. I assume there is some issue with FC6 and one component of my hardware (video card or motherboard I would think). So can someone please help we get to the bottom of this problem?

Thanks in advance!

[Dies]

Well I never said it would solve the issue, I said maybe and might help but I gave no assurances.
Sorry it didn't work for you, and hopefully someone can help you out.

Have you tried the vesa driver yet.

[jinx099]

Originally Posted by Dies

Well I never said it would solve the issue, I said maybe and might help but I gave no assurances.
Sorry it didn't work for you, and hopefully someone can help you out.

Have you tried the vesa driver yet.

The vesa driver does not work at all for me.

Also, I forgot to mention before, I have done testing with no overclocking at all and still have the same issues.

[jinx099]

I want to add to my specs, I also have 3 PCI cards. they are:

-Audigy 2 ZS
-ATI TV wonder Pro
-Intel Pro 100+ NIC

I have the NIC in there for testing, I thought maybe the onaboard NIC was causing the problems, but apparently not.

[jinx099]

the xen kernel seems to solve the lockup problem.

Now of course as soon as I hit the submit button it will lock up.

I'd still like to get to the root of the problem... anyone... ?