Help! Screen goes black, mouse frozen, caps-lock blinking!

[6tr6tr]

I keep starting up Fedora and I'm not able to get far (although it's not always at the same time) before my screen will go black, except it shows the mouse/cursor - but it's frozen, and thhen the caps-lock light starts blinking and I can't do anything or get it to recover. Sometimes it happens after 30 seconds, sometimes 40+ seconds and sometimes within 15 or so seconds.

How do I stop this and diagnose this?

I've tried, in the boot-startup to choose an older kernel version, butt the same thing occurs!


I have:

Fedora 11
Kernel: 2.6.29.6-217.2.16.fc11 i586
Asus EEE PC 1002HA

Any ideas?

EDIT: One other thing, it does always seem to happen after I've turned on wireless. And I've been using F11 for months now with no issue.

[JohnJasonJordan]

Originally Posted by 6tr6tr

I keep starting up Fedora and I'm not able to get far (although it's not always at the same time) before my screen will go black, except it shows the mouse/cursor - but it's frozen, and thhen the caps-lock light starts blinking and I can't do anything or get it to recover. Sometimes it happens after 30 seconds, sometimes 40+ seconds and sometimes within 15 or so seconds.

How do I stop this and diagnose this?

I've tried, in the boot-startup to choose an older kernel version, butt the same thing occurs!


I have:

Fedora 11
Kernel: 2.6.29.6-217.2.16.fc11 i586
Asus EEE PC 1002HA

Any ideas?

EDIT: One other thing, it does always seem to happen after I've turned on wireless. And I've been using F11 for months now with no issue.

The symptoms you describe are almost surely a kernel panic. The flashing caps-lock light is a major symptom of this.

I also have Fedora 11 and I keep getting popup warnings that there has been a kernel crash. It is always the wireless module, even though I may not even be using wireless (at home I am wired with ethernet). In my case it does not create a kernel panic.

I wish I could offer a fix, but I'm just an idiot newbie to Fedora. I can suggest, however, that you look at your wireless connectivity configurations. It may be just a user configuration problem. But it may also be a driver issue. Do the command "lspci" and look in the output for the wireless chip in your computer. Then search the forums for the name of the chip. With any luck you are not alone and someone else my already have posted a fix.

[6tr6tr]

Originally Posted by JohnJasonJordan

The symptoms you describe are almost surely a kernel panic. The flashing caps-lock light is a major symptom of this.

I also have Fedora 11 and I keep getting popup warnings that there has been a kernel crash. It is always the wireless module, even though I may not even be using wireless (at home I am wired with ethernet). In my case it does not create a kernel panic.

I wish I could offer a fix, but I'm just an idiot newbie to Fedora. I can suggest, however, that you look at your wireless connectivity configurations. It may be just a user configuration problem. But it may also be a driver issue. Do the command "lspci" and look in the output for the wireless chip in your computer. Then search the forums for the name of the chip. With any luck you are not alone and someone else my already have posted a fix.

Thanks.

The weird thing is that it's been working for months and I've made NO changes to it. The only "unusual" thing is that I hadn't used the computer in about 10 days before today. Otherwise, I can't figure this out.

[6tr6tr]

Can anyone help me?