Re: [gentoo-user] My laptop is freaking me out.

2005-07-10 Thread Phillip Stewart
On Mon, 11 Jul 2005 05:23, Ian K wrote: > About monitoring the temperature, can an A70 do that? How would > I set that up? GKrellm gives me the standard info, but I dont know > how to get temperature monitoring info showing. Hmm. AFAIK, a Pentium 4 processor should have that capability. My gkrel

Re: [gentoo-user] My laptop is freaking me out.

2005-07-10 Thread Ian K
ghayes wrote: >On Mon, 11 Jul 2005 08:41:01 +1200 >Phillip Stewart <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > >>On Sun, 10 Jul 2005 12:50, Ian K wrote: >> >> >>>Hi there. >>>My new laptop (Toshiba A70) is seriously weirding me out. >>>It seems to be turning off (randomly?) while in KDE. >>> >>>

Re: [gentoo-user] My laptop is freaking me out.

2005-07-10 Thread ghayes
On Mon, 11 Jul 2005 08:41:01 +1200 Phillip Stewart <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sun, 10 Jul 2005 12:50, Ian K wrote: > > Hi there. > > My new laptop (Toshiba A70) is seriously weirding me out. > > It seems to be turning off (randomly?) while in KDE. > > Could it be simply that the processor i

Re: [gentoo-user] My laptop is freaking me out.

2005-07-10 Thread Phillip Stewart
On Sun, 10 Jul 2005 12:50, Ian K wrote: > Hi there. > My new laptop (Toshiba A70) is seriously weirding me out. > It seems to be turning off (randomly?) while in KDE. Could it be simply that the processor is overheating and shutting down to protect itself? My Dell laptop used to do the same thi

Re: [gentoo-user] My laptop is freaking me out.

2005-07-10 Thread Richard Fish
Ian K wrote: >Hi there. >My new laptop (Toshiba A70) is seriously weirding me out. >It seems to be turning off (randomly?) while in KDE. I cannot >distinguish any patterns uptime-wise, nor is it an actual power >failure. (Nothing else dies, battery prescence is confirmed with >hardware lighting, a

[gentoo-user] My laptop is freaking me out.

2005-07-09 Thread Ian K
Hi there. My new laptop (Toshiba A70) is seriously weirding me out. It seems to be turning off (randomly?) while in KDE. I cannot distinguish any patterns uptime-wise, nor is it an actual power failure. (Nothing else dies, battery prescence is confirmed with hardware lighting, and this lighting ind