On Friday 05 May 2006 09:06 pm, JimD wrote: > Ok, this is a three part question. I am on "vacation" and I am using my > wife's laptop that used to have winxp and now has Gentoo. Starting > today I started to get garbled video output followed by a lock-up. I > have been using the laptop as my dev platform and keeping it running > 24x7. I am not sure if this is messing it up or not. It seems to stay > pretty warm. I bought an extra 1GB of mem for the laptop and put that > in today after the first lockup. I ran memtest for about 10 minutes and > didn't see any issues.
Laptops are NOT meant to run 24/7. They don't have the cooling to survive for more than a few hours. Get some fans or something to save it before you fry something. > The laptop has an Intel "Extreme" graphics chip. Every time before the > lockup, the video gets all messed up with vertical and horizontal > lines. I just went in the bios and changed the CPU speed to LOW which > is now 800Mhz Pentium M instead of 1.73GHz, changed the screen > brightness to the lowest. I also switched the X driver from i810 to > vesa. So far it seems a little more stable. However, after a recent > startx, when X first comes up I see a quick flash of my previous desktop > on the screen. It seems like the memory wasn't cleared and the junk > left in it is displayed for a second while X is initializing. This > "Extreme" chip uses system memory. Has anyone had issue like this? Couple times. I use a IBM X40 with the i810 drivers. Mine is a Intel Extreme Graphics 2 chip. I hate its guts. It's so non-standard it's like finding a needle in a haystack to get anything to work with it. Right now I have a problem like so: I send the machine into sleep mode. I come out of sleep mode and the screen is off. I restart X with ctrl+alt+backspace and the screen revives. Nothing I know of can restore the screen to activity without killing and then reviving X. The Intel graphics chips are still very new as far as linux support is concerned, at least in my experience. I'd give it some time. > I have always been a desktop person so I am not used to these "tender" > laptops. Do these issues sound like they are caused by over heating? > Or could it be hardware? This thing is only 2-3 months old. I better > not have to send it to Toshiba already. I have a Satellite M45-S2692. Stop running it 24/7! It's not *supposed* to do that! > Now for the games part. I can't compile/play some of the bigger games > and now I am POed : ) What games? > Are there any recommendations for fun games in Gentoo that could run > fine with the vesa drive? I am trying to find some game to help pass > the time on my "vacation" at my in-laws ; ) Some guys I eat lunch with have gotten a amazing amount of enjoyment out of a game called KBounce.
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