On Fri, 23 Apr 2010 17:00:06 +0100 (BST) Dan vi5u0-alug@yahoo.co.uk wrote:
On Wed, 21 Apr 2010, Dan wrote:
OK. I ditched the framebuffer support. The good news is my GUI still works. The bad news is that I'm still getting both the kernel panics and the DPMS flakiness. Reading back up the kernel panic messages, they mention both TuxOnIce and ath5k, the latter being mentioned in the same position (right at the end) that intelfb was mentioned before. Any ideas?
Now this is strange. As I said, I now don't have framebuffer support in the kernel (i.e. it's not compiled in, and the module, although available, is not loaded), yet today, I still got a crash with a message about "intelfb_panic".
In your previous message you mentioned ath5k which is a wireless driver and TuxOnIce which appears to handle hibernation. I'd therefore be inclined to try turning off wireless for a while and also trying without using hibernation to see if either of these solves the problem with the panic.
It is also worth running memtest86 to check for faulty memory - if there is a memory fault this can cause puzzling symptoms because, as the configuration changes, the module affected by the fault also changes.
HTH, Steve.