Hai, i installed sabayon the saturday, and i didnt know where else to post, so here it goes..
My system freezes every once in a while. i had this problem with mint (see http://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.php?f=109&t=130440) on kernel 3.5.0 and then i decided to update (not specifically to fix this) to 3.8.10 still happened, both kernels 32 bit. i didnt have much luck, so i gave up for a bit. then i found sabayon and the saturday installed it. the sunday i came to realize my cpu was 64 bit capable, so i switched to 64 bit edition, it still happens. i havent been able to tell what special thing im doing when this happens, but heres the you could say symptoms:
- lock keys (num/caps/scroll) dont work
- following key combos dont (although im not really sure) work: ctrl+alt+del/backspace, ctrl+alt+f1, alt+print, screen/sysRq+reisub. will check next time
- once i was listening to a song and the sound looped
- other times it outputted static
- the leds (num/caps/scroll lock) dont change their state
- a friend told me to use windows for a week and see if it happened, im not sure anymore but, it didnt
once or twice it just rebooted instead of freezing
correct me if im wrong:
- ctrl+alt+f1-f6 ---> switches to virtual consoles
- ctrl+alt+f7/f8 ---> switches to the console in which X is running
- ctrl+alt+backspace ---> Kills X
- ctrl+alt+del (supr on latin keyboards) ---> Signals the init process (usually configured to soft reboot)
- altGr (this has to be used instead of alt else a screenshot will be dumped) +print screen/sysRq+<key> executes a command (possible keys and their commands available in Wikipedia)
if all this fails it can be safely assumed that the kernel died?
how can this be further debugged?
oh and im using KDE
thanks in advance and hope this also helps someone