On Sun, 2009-01-25 at 13:59 +0530, Guruprasad wrote: > On Sun, Jan 25, 2009 at 1:57 PM, Guruprasad <[email protected]> wrote: > > I have been having similar issues, but could zero it to Overheating as > > hardware and RAM tests were ok. When my laptop was overheating, no > > matter how many times I rebooted it, it still crashed with blinking > > Caps-Lock and I had to manually power off and restart. > > > > But one weird thing I noticed here is that, the laptop never failed to > > crash in the GUI mode when overheating. But when I used one of the > > consoles (Ctrl+Alt+F1-F6) it didn't crash at all. But when I tried to > > return to the GUI, it promptly crashed. Could there be any > > explanations for this? > > BTW, I forgot to mention that I use Ubuntu Hardy with 2.6.24-16-generic > kernel.
Perhaps your problem is just incorrectly configured graphics drivers? This could cause high CPU load in X (and consequently overheating, if that's what you detect). -- Regards, Roshan George <[email protected]> _______________________________________________ To unsubscribe, email [email protected] with "unsubscribe <password> <address>" in the subject or body of the message. http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
