James wrote: >Ian K <omega_2_1 <at> yahoo.ca> writes: > > > >>Hi there. >>My new laptop (Toshiba A70) is seriously weirding me out. >>It seems to be turning off (randomly?) while in KDE. I cannot >>distinguish any patterns uptime-wise, nor is it an actual power >>failure. >> >> > >I just had this idetical problem with a Clevo (2.8GHz) p4 portable, >with a 2.6.11-gento-r11 kernel. > >I built a new kernel on 2.6.12-gentoo-r4 and the problem has disappeared. > >I'm too busy to look at the diffs between the .config files, but, if >you want them, I'll send them to you. I'm quite certain it was something >in the kernel, acpi would be my guess..... Building a new kernel, and >selecting everything from scratch did the trick. The weird thing is >I run 2.6.11-gentoo-r11 on several other machines, and had no problem. > > >James > > > > > Oh yes, I should also note that this seems to only happen in KDE, not XFCE or FluxBox. I perosnally dont care for GNOME so I haven't tried it. But I did notice that when I briefly had Ubuntu on this laptop, I did not have these issues. Is KDE the culprit? Thanks!
PS>> With those temperatures, I do have all available options under ACPI enabled, however, GKrellm2 says in the info tab that no such sensors were found. I am also on Kernel 2.6.13-rc1-mm1. Is that too bleeding edge? :)
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