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

[Richard Fish <bigfish@asmallpond.org>]

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, and this lighting indicates a full charge.
>I also see no real connections between what I am doing when
>the computer turns off. Once, I was browsing the web in Firefox,
>and tonight, I was playing around with the XScreensaver settings.
>I have noticed, that it seems to only happen while in KDE, although
>Im not 100% sure. Also, I have the KDE laptop battery monitor set
>to do *nothing* if the battery should reach a warning or critical
>power value. This has happened to be about 6 times over the last
>few days. I also just got KDE emerged, so I can say its been happening
>probably since it has been up. I have left it on for extended amounts
>of time in the regular CLI though, without any problems.
>I can't really think of anything else to say, but I should mention that
>it **seems** to do a safe shutdown, but Im not sure. The power is
>cut rather instantly, and I am not swished off into a system reboot
>message. When I start it up again, ReiserFS claims the file system is
>clean, and goes on to replay the journal as usual. Do any of
>you have any thoughts on this? Thanks a lot!
>Ian
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>

Are you getting anything in /var/log/messages?

-Richard

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