Hi,

There was a problem with the NeoMagic MagicMedia 256 sound driver in kernels 2.6.6-1.440 and earlier, see:

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=121601

This is fixed both upstream in the Linus kernel, and in Red Hat Fedora kernels as well. If you get a newer kernel (I know that 2.6.7-1.488 works for example) your laptop will not freeze, but your sound might also not work. I have not been able to get actual sound out of the laptop, but at least it doesn't freeze.

Dan

On Wed, 2004-07-21 at 14:34 -0400, Jose Moreno wrote:

I loaded Fedora Core2 from the ftp.redhat.com site on my dell latitude. it loads up until the Login screen, then once i enter my username and password, it freezes midway through. I tried KDE and GNOME and they both freeze

any ideas why? i'm eager to get started with Linux.

Display is a NeoMagice MagicGraph256AV Pentium 3

it works fine on Windows XP. i hate xp though :-0