Marc Haber wrote:

Hi,

On Thu, Aug 26, 2010 at 11:22:45AM -0600, Tantilov, Emil S wrote:

quoted

As far as the crashes go - it would help a lot if you can get a
trace. You can use a serial console if you have a docking station
for the T60. 

I have indeed recently bought a docking station. How do I obtain a
trace from a frozen sysem?

The idea is to catch any output that may be pertinent to the crash. With some luck the hang would be associated with a trace which you can record by using a serial console. 

Check out the serial-console.txt file for more info in the Documentation section of the kernel source. Once you have your primary system configured you can connect via serial cable to a secondary system with minicom (or other terminal that can read from serial port) to be able to capture the trace.

Greetings
Marc

Thanks,
Emil