On Wed, 2008-05-07 at 07:56 -0700, Jeffrey S. Geist wrote: > Just loaded the latest version of openSolaris on my nx9420. I have a couple > problems/issues after the install. Oh, install went fine. Wireless is trying > to work but the main problem is the system will hard lock after so long. Have > to hold the power button down to reboot the system. I had Ubuntu 8.04 on this > same system last week and it would do the same thing. What I found, after > much research, was the ATI x1600 was overheating and causing the hard lock. > Installing the ATI fglrx driver allowed me you use the aticonfig program and > I set the power state of the gpu to "1" > > aticonfig --set-powerstate=1 > > That solved the overheating problem. XP SP3 runs fine on the same system. Has > anyone ran into this type of problem on a laptop with the ATI x1600 gpu? > > > This message posted from opensolaris.org > _______________________________________________ > laptop-discuss mailing list > laptop-discuss at opensolaris.org
I'd probably say it might have to do with the radeonhd video driver - have you reported that bug? As for Solaris, I am not too sure. Matthew
