I keep getting crash reports, I have had it 3 times in the last 2 hours.

It is saying its kernel. How can I grab a report for someone to look over it and help me fix it?

Ive got this info



WARNING: at /build/buildd/linux-2.6.32/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath5k/base.c:1142 ath5k_tasklet_rx+0x53b/0x5a0 [ath5k]()
Call Trace:
[<c014c3d2>] warn_slowpath_common+0x72/0xa0
[<f896e47b>] ? ath5k_tasklet_rx+0x53b/0x5a0 [ath5k]
[<f896e47b>] ? ath5k_tasklet_rx+0x53b/0x5a0 [ath5k]
[<c014c44b>] warn_slowpath_fmt+0x2b/0x30
[<f896e47b>] ath5k_tasklet_rx+0x53b/0x5a0 [ath5k]
[<c0151a77>] tasklet_action+0xa7/0xb0
[<c0153068>] __do_softirq+0x98/0x1b0
[<c012293b>] ? ack_apic_level+0x6b/0x170
[<c016d7de>] ? sched_clock_tick+0x5e/0xa0

how much help this is I dont know

When you get to Grub try selecting an earlier kernel to see if that solves it. At least if it works it narrows down the area to look at.

I never see grub?

Just boots straight into Ubuntu.

Try pressing ESC when you 1st boot (after bios screen) to see if it shows.

Thanks dEVIANT

No joy,
I think I can shed some more light on the problem.

It seems its to do with the ACPI on my laptop. If I hibernate the laptop it will take ages to boot up. I recall after the install I did have a ACPI error on boot but I installed some of the related toshiba ACPI packages and that error seemed to fizzle out.


I have also noticed that the laptop is getting very hot but the cooling fan doesn't seem to run that fast.

are you recompiling a new kernel, it seems to bomb out on drivers/net/wireless/ath are you doing a net install?

No, Its just a running install of ubuntu 10.04 beta 2.

:(

Can anyone suggest a flavour that will support intel GM965 chipsets?

According to the documentation that chipset is supported with intel's drivers, so in theory it should work with all distros.

I've had a few issues with the 10.04 beta releases so i've gone back to 9.10 64bit which is running very smoothly. Have you tried Linux Mint? It branched off from Ubuntu so you'll feel at home and it uses same repo's, plus it has the media codecs preinstalled and looks very sleek.

openSUSE is supposedly one of the better distros for laptops, but I cannot get it to run on mine no mater what I try.

I try the

glxinfo | grep rendering


I get

direct rendering: No (If you want to find out why, try setting LIBGL_DEBUG=verbose)


As a response?

Have no clue which direction to go as there is no X11.conf file on my laptop (I am guessing as it is HAL) I have tried mint. I don't like it. But that may just be KDE4 I am not liking really.

I'm not a fan of KDE either, Mint is Gnome by defaut though as its main desktop.