I have some problems sinc FC3test2. With every kernel since test2 sometimes laptop plugged to AC outlet or battery supplied turns off. It works at random times, but today, after upgrading to 2.6.9-1.681_FC3 the laptop turned off 4 times in 1 hour. It is too much. I've just been working in gnome (configuring sound or network) when it took place. How to fight this? I have now FC3 final (clean install).
Darek Borkowski
I have some problems sinc FC3test2. With every kernel since test2 sometimes laptop plugged to AC outlet or battery supplied turns off. It works at random times, but today, after upgrading to 2.6.9-1.681_FC3 the laptop turned off 4 times in 1 hour. It is too much. I've just been working in gnome (configuring sound or network) when it took place. How to fight this? I have now FC3 final (clean install).
I had the same behaviour on my laptop. After a little troubleshooting it turned out that one of my memory sticks had gone bad. Try running memtest, I believe that is an option from cd 1.
On Tue, 23 Nov 2004 23:55:47 +0100, Darek Borkowski bednar007@gmail.com wrote:
I have some problems sinc FC3test2. With every kernel since test2 sometimes laptop plugged to AC outlet or battery supplied turns off. It works at random times, but today, after upgrading to 2.6.9-1.681_FC3 the laptop turned off 4 times in 1 hour. It is too much. I've just been working in gnome (configuring sound or network) when it took place. How to fight this? I have now FC3 final (clean install).
Check if your system fan is working correctly. I've been having problems with my system fan running full blast since going to FC3 final and have been using the fan control program to set the fan low manually after boot. Fiddling around with the program settings, I set the fans off unintentionally. A while later, the system shut off without warning when the CPU temp got too high.
Glenn
ons, 24.11.2004 kl. 15.41 skrev Glen Staufer:
On Tue, 23 Nov 2004 23:55:47 +0100, Darek Borkowski bednar007@gmail.com wrote:
I have some problems sinc FC3test2. With every kernel since test2 sometimes laptop plugged to AC outlet or battery supplied turns off. It works at random times, but today, after upgrading to 2.6.9-1.681_FC3 the laptop turned off 4 times in 1 hour. It is too much. I've just been working in gnome (configuring sound or network) when it took place. How to fight this? I have now FC3 final (clean install).
Check if your system fan is working correctly. I've been having problems with my system fan running full blast since going to FC3 final and have been using the fan control program to set the fan low manually after boot. Fiddling around with the program settings, I set the fans off unintentionally. A while later, the system shut off without warning when the CPU temp got too high.
Glenn
Fan control program? You mean the /proc/acpi/fan interface?
Fan is working OK. I'm testing it (FC3) again now. I think the power offs happened when one of gnome programs died. Several times yeseterday I had evolution 2.0 became zombie. And then laptop powered off. It is even stranger because it has good battery, so when I unplug AC cable I can easily work on it still about 3-4 hours.
regards
Darek Borkowski
ons, 24.11.2004 kl. 22.44 skrev Darek Borkowski:
Fan is working OK. I'm testing it (FC3) again now. I think the power offs happened when one of gnome programs died. Several times yeseterday I had evolution 2.0 became zombie. And then laptop powered off. It is even stranger because it has good battery, so when I unplug AC cable I can easily work on it still about 3-4 hours.
regards
Darek Borkowski
I have heard about batstatt-aplet triggering a kernel bug on certain hardware, killing the pc.
Having the CPU/mem monitor in the taskbar is also *very* usefull for debugging :)
You can (probably) read CPU temp from /proc/acpi/processor/...
just use xterm and cat ;)
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