i have strange problem since ubuntu 8.04... the computer hangs and become totally unresponsive when dealing with files or playing videos or even doing nothing !!! ...after a 6 months of desperate searching i installed ubuntu 8.10 at 30 october(once it was released) but the same problem exists...but i think it is hard disk related due to strange kernel messages that i get when trying the command dmesg ( yes i learned alot about Linux coz of this bug :D )
can any one help ? !!!!
how can anyone help when
how can anyone help when you didn't even write your problem? can you post anymore information like dmesg? did you try launchpad.net ??
Michael Behman
What's the error message
What's the error message you are getting from the kernel ??
sorry
first sorry for being late to respond and for not posting the error message but i didnt want to post something that iam not sure about it...
and yes i have tried lunchpad and subscribed to 3 bugs and all the solutions given didnt solve the problem..what i havent tried is replacing the sata hdd with an pata one...
and about the kernel error messeges what i notice is that when ubuntu start it is fast and no problems but after doing any thing (io involved) like playing a movie or firefox the error messages starts to appear and the hard disk transfere speed decreases from (udma/133) till reaching udma/33 then any thing else could hang the system...
here is the error messages please notice the line UDMA/133...
thanks for ur help...
Ahmed Kotb Computer Science Dept. Alex. Uni. kotbcorp@gmail.com www.kotbcorp.blogspot.com