From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([69.77.167.62] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1JhQ3G-0004lu-RM for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 03 Apr 2008 14:04:27 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id BC562E0559; Thu, 3 Apr 2008 14:02:48 +0000 (UTC) Received: from el-out-1112.google.com (el-out-1112.google.com [209.85.162.182]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9460CE0559 for ; Thu, 3 Apr 2008 14:02:48 +0000 (UTC) Received: by el-out-1112.google.com with SMTP id j27so1578989elf.14 for ; Thu, 03 Apr 2008 07:02:48 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; bh=8XZ/tc6HjW6sNDCXr1kDODn/njMWvWY+wQBWlc3tUYg=; b=Op8YTs4St040k/YNgTt7y1Zuk2trZmYGlk88VhlaS8Cz57ZvmnjNgwAjj7HxnyT2jOo1WjwnMSwRn+77vmRStN9yUuw7nOCzbsQzBmMicyXjKTiE5z9No9N1vPsubdKy1jlMUAqvCRlSLa1sEsMGcgiefbQWN8GgM0O1iEPngL0= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=message-id:date:from:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=HdoNW2S0hWYlL1G2F6M5D0yUPou6ApIATa2OC00DbSqDzLKYCFZz7x5t4HJItjfMGOvteAuYhjKAbTrdgx4y2b3pO3k5RDFcx7so6jFq+YssrNza469MI+p/EPyu79sW+GEeZ4bTN6Z8qKoc2cHTo16HjTkBwqcReOZ7OiFuVeQ= Received: by 10.114.175.16 with SMTP id x16mr17413929wae.116.1207231367660; Thu, 03 Apr 2008 07:02:47 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.115.110.15 with HTTP; Thu, 3 Apr 2008 07:02:47 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <49bf44f10804030702j5474ae14ma2943368614f54de@mail.gmail.com> Date: Thu, 3 Apr 2008 07:02:47 -0700 From: Grant To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Laptop keeps freezing In-Reply-To: <47F29843.30501@gmail.com> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <49bf44f10803310926h72cc0eb7gd4ef9e0350cb67e5@mail.gmail.com> <20080331170350.GA7130@syscon2.inet> <47F29843.30501@gmail.com> X-Archives-Salt: 5f37cc0c-ab77-436e-b1ac-70f634b20b4c X-Archives-Hash: 66afaf67e6b5749ada400fe995d44c26 > |> My Gentoo laptop keeps freezing. It will stay up for about 30 minutes > |> and then stop responding altogether. I've checked the logs but there > |> is nothing informative there. I'm all up to date with packages. How > |> do you troubleshoot something like this? > |> > |> - Grant > | > | Start with "ls_sensors" and monitor CPU and motherboard temp. > +1 to that. I had a laptop that was doing the exact same thing. I > installed lm_sensors and saw that at rest my temp was generally 40C > (that's with powersave enabled). When I compiled the temp would go up > to 75C...I think the highest I ever got it was 77C.* A /little/ over 40 > is too hot... > > *For the Americans (like me) the easy way for C -> F is double it, > subtract 10% and add 32. So the temps would be 104F, 167F and 171F. The laptop has stopped freezing now. Not sure what was going on. Thanks a lot for all the help and I'll refer back if I need to. - Grant -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list