On Apr 19, 2014, at 7:51 PM, Sudhir Khanger <sud...@sudhirkhanger.com> wrote:
> I am having a really terrible experience with Fedora 20 KDE on Thinkpad 420i. > > I installed Fedora 20 KDE on Thinkpad 420i, upgraded it to the latest and > system freezes at the login screen. System temperature goes over limit either > burning the system or shutting it down. Load average goes as high as 10. > Fedora 20 is shipped with kernel 3.11.10 and I can confirm that I faced the > problem on 3.13.8, 3.13.9 and 3.13.10 is a hit and miss. > > I have filed a bug but it hasn't cracked a noise at Redhat Bugzilla. No > response either from KDE Mailing list here and this is my last resort before > I might have to forcibly switch to a more stable distro like Kubuntu (and > that would be really sad). Though there may be a kernel issue, this sounds like it might actually be a hardware problem. Have you checked that your fan is functioning properly? I had a Lenovo IdeaPad (still have it, actually, it runs Ubuntu) whose fan gave up the ghost. $40 later and a few minutes and it was good as new. The kernel can cause overtemperature, but the temperature/fan is usually controlled in the BIOS. Since you mention that it works when you turn off the display manager.. that would make sense since on a laptop the processor actually creates less heat than the graphics chip sometimes. You might try it with different distributions just to rule out a hardware issue. --Russell -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
