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Caps Lock blinking and freeze on my new laptop
trinidad

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#11

07-17-2016, 03:49 PM
Sounds like your cpu is not threading properly in 64bit mode. This can be caused by several things, including messed up partitioning, dirty disk, and/or outdated cpu. Some old 64bit machines cannot handle new 64bit software, not powerful enough. It's hit or miss with the older stuff. What cpu is your laptop running?

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#12

07-17-2016, 04:04 PM
Indeed. If this is your processor your going to have problems with Firefox and VLC in 64bit, and virtually no 3D rendering.

http://www.notebookcheck.net/Intel-Celer...637.0.html

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07-17-2016, 04:31 PM
(07-17-2016, 03:49 PM)trinidad link Wrote:Sounds like your cpu is not threading properly in 64bit mode. This can be caused by several things, including messed up partitioning, dirty disk, and/or outdated cpu. Some old 64bit machines cannot handle new 64bit software, not powerful enough. It's hit or miss with the older stuff. What cpu is your laptop running?

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This is details my CPU
Code:
-Computer-
Processor        : 2x Intel(R) Celeron(R) CPU  N3050  @ 1.60GHz
Memory        : 1923MB (878MB used)
Operating System        : Linux Lite 3.0
User Name        : linuxlite (linuxlite)
Date/Time        : Min 17 Jul 2016 11:30:40  WIB
-Display-
Resolution        : 1366x768 pixels
OpenGL Renderer        : Mesa DRI Intel(R) HD Graphics (Cherryview) x86/MMX/SSE2
X11 Vendor        : The X.Org Foundation
-Multimedia-
Audio Adapter        : HDA-Intel - HDA Intel PCH
-Input Devices-
Lid Switch
Power Button
Power Button
AT Translated Set 2 keyboard
Video Bus
ETPS/2 Elantech Touchpad
HP Wireless hotkeys
HDA Intel PCH Mic
HDA Intel PCH Headphone
HDA Intel PCH HDMI/DP,pcm        : 3=
PixArt USB Optical Mouse
HP Truevision HD
HP WMI hotkeys
-Printers-
No printers found
-SCSI Disks-
ATA HGST HTS545050A7
hp DVDRW  DU8A6SH
WD Elements 10B8
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07-17-2016, 04:36 PM
(07-17-2016, 02:52 PM)paul1149 link Wrote:If you ever want to try 64 bit again, I would attend to basic maintenance, such as making sure the vents are clear by using compressed air, possibly resetting the CPU thermal paste, and cleaning and resetting the RAM.

I am bought my laptop less one year.
Btw, thanks for advice paul1149 and maybe I want check my laptop as your suggestion.
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07-17-2016, 04:39 PM
(07-17-2016, 04:04 PM)trinidad link Wrote:Indeed. If this is your processor your going to have problems with Firefox and VLC in 64bit, and virtually no 3D rendering.

http://www.notebookcheck.net/Intel-Celer...637.0.html

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Yup, exactly as you said. Kernel Panic was happen when I run Mozilla Firefox and VLC 64-bit.
Oh, one thing again, not only Linux Lite can happen kernel panic on my laptop.
I tried Debian 8 and Lubuntu 15.10 64-bit version, I got a same this problem.
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#16

07-18-2016, 02:07 PM
You might want to try increasing the swappiness to 100, and make your swap file or part at least 2g. It sounds goofy but the swap runs slower than the ddr and it can help ease the cpu into the heavy apps rather than force feed it into turbo mode and crash it out of its oc length.

http://askubuntu.com/questions/103915/ho...swappiness

Everything Ubuntu 16.xx 64bit derived has problems with this little tweaked cpu, though I had reasonable success with a 2.8 LL/64 and windows 7/64 dual boot on a similar HP laptop, success being defined as LL running substantially faster than windows7. Debian8 will run okay on it but you'll need a full dvd set installer that you can pre-seed, not a unet bootin download just to install it in a reasonable amount of time. Also, just so you know, the cpu demands for Firefox and VLC are even higher in LXLE than LL, so its not worth experimenting with. IMHO, LL is the most efficient 64/OS as far as XFCE distros.

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07-20-2016, 04:06 PM
Honestly, after a few days Linux Lite 3.0 32-bit same have a problem, caps lock blinking and freeze my laptop.
Today, I am installing fedora 23 64-bit, it's working fine.
I'd test 5 hours fedora 23 64-bit my laptop with listening music, accessing internet, and working my job with libreoffice run smoothly without any problem.
I am still confuse, why it can happen all distro debian on my laptop?
That's new experience for me in the linux.
Btw, swapiness can solve it?
Thanks
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#18

07-20-2016, 09:42 PM
Ubuntu friends indicate that your little cpu works most reliably in 64bit on kernel 4.4.1. LL 3.0 is on 4.4.0-21, as far as I know. Fedora23 is beyond that, so perhaps the issue is provided for beyond 4.4.1.

http://askubuntu.com/questions/726508/ce...untu-14-04 

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07-21-2016, 08:13 AM
(07-20-2016, 09:42 PM)trinidad link Wrote:Ubuntu friends indicate that your little cpu works most reliably in 64bit on kernel 4.4.1. LL 3.0 is on 4.4.0-21, as far as I know. Fedora23 is beyond that, so perhaps the issue is provided for beyond 4.4.1.

http://askubuntu.com/questions/726508/ce...untu-14-04 

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Ok, maybe I should upgrade kernel as you said.
I will try it, thanks man! :)
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#20

07-26-2016, 07:20 PM
Upgrading kernel not solved my problem, but I found step to fix it.
I am looking how to make partition automatic from fedora, it use need partition ext2 and swap without LVM.
I tried it in LL 3.0 64-bit edition, my problem is solved. That's awesome but a little strange.
I mark SOLVED for this topic, thanks all :)
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