Mick wrote:
Laptops generally get warm/hot to the touch. What sort of
temperatures does it show?
That is one of the problems with the blasted laptop. Speedstep and
sensors are not working. I don't know if it is an Intel thing or a
Toshiba thing. I should have gotten an AMD laptop. My AMD64 desktop
runs great and everything works, especially the Cool-n-Quite. I have
been trying to see if there is a patch for speedstep. The laptop is 3
months old and has a Pentium M - Sonoma:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] $ cat /proc/cpuinfo
processor : 0
vendor_id : GenuineIntel
cpu family : 6
model : 13
model name : Intel(R) Pentium(R) M processor 1.73GHz
stepping : 8
cpu MHz : 1729.164
cache size : 2048 KB
fpu : yes
fpu_exception : yes
cpuid level : 2
wp : yes
flags : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 sep mtrr pge mca
cmov pat clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss tm pbe nx est tm2
bogomips : 3466.07
I looked at speedstep-centrino.c in the kernel source and added the
Sonoma. However it still does not work and I just get:
FATAL: Error inserting speedstep_centrino
(/lib/modules/2.6.16-gentoo-r6/kernel/arch/i386/kernel/cpu/cpufreq/speedstep-centrino.ko):
No such device
memetest should run overnight to get a reliable result. I remember
reading either in this list or in the Gentoo forums why memtest is not
the best test for memory integrity. There's a script somewhere which
will also put your memory controller under some pressure. I'll post
back if I can find it.
I tried that. Last night memtest got through the first 4 tests. When
test 5 came the screen got all garbaled, though the test kept running.
I let the laptop cool overnight and this morning ran just test #5 and it
completed. I then booted to Gnome and the screen got garbaled.
If as you say your video card is sharing the system memory and the
memory is suspect, then that would explain why you are getting all
these video display problems. Does reverting back to the old memory
chip improve matters?
Could different memory modules from different manufacturers not work
well together, though work well alone? I just took out the 512MB DDR2
that came with the laptop and put just the 1GB DD2 in that I bought and
this is the longest it has stayed running since yesterday.
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Regards,
Mick
Thanks Mick.
Jim
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