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JimD wrote:
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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.
Oh, great! Now you tell me ; )
For
Jeremy Olexa wrote:
Configure ACPI to run the proc at the lowest speed unless it is under a
load. I leave my laptop on for days at a time..the longest uptime is 8
days so far. My proc speed is always set at 600mhz unless it is under a
load and then it jumps to 1.7ghz, it works well..
OK. That
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
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
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.
Oh, great! Now you tell me ; )
For the last week I have been running it from about 9:00 AM until
On 06/05/06, JimD [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
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
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
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
On 5/6/06, JimD [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
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
On 5/6/06, JimD [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
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
On 5/6/06, JimD [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
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
Richard Fish wrote:
One possibility may have to do with the memory timings of the old vs
new memory. If the BIOS gives any manual control over the CAS, RAS,
etc timings, you might try increasing them. I had to do this with my
AMD64 desktop system, even though the memory modules were matched.
Richard Fish wrote:
Speedstep should definitely work out-of-the-box here. My 3 mo old
Core Duo processor works great with the speedstep-centrino module. And
my previous 6mo old laptop on Sonoma also worked great. Maybe you
are missing some ACPI options? (ACPI processor is the big one I can
On 5/6/06, JimD [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Did you use genkernel?
Nope, never have.
If you like, I can email you the relevant global, power management,
and processor parts of my .config.
-Richard
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Richard Fish wrote:
Nope, never have.
If you like, I can email you the relevant global, power management,
and processor parts of my .config.
Please send the .config, that could come in handy. I am probably just
leaving out something.
Thanks for the help,
Jim
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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
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