Allan Gottlieb wrote: >At Sun, 11 Dec 2005 10:42:13 +0000 "C. Beamer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > >>Hi all, >> >>I'm at the point where I can boot the system and I've been trying to >>install xorg-x11. However, the laptop keeps powering off on me. >> >>This wasn't a problem until I build the kernel where I built acpi >>support into it. However, I *didn't* read the ACPI Guide and obviously, >>should have. That's no big problem, I'll just recompile the kernel and >>follow what the Guide says. >> >> > >Had you built xorg-x11 when the kernel didn't have acpi support? >I ask because a long build could be raising the temperature of your >laptop and it is shutting off to save itself from frying. > >I have had dell service replace motherboards on two laptops because of >this problem. >
Actually, my laptop is a Dell. To answer your question, I had build acpi into the kernel prior to trying to emerge xorg-x11. However, I didn't change any of the default selections that were there when I ran genkernel --menuconfig all. The think I didn't do was emerge acpid and adjust the settings as per the instructions in the ACPI Guide. I'm going to try this now to see if that fixes the problem. Another thing, there was a choice to build Dell laptop support into the kernel and I selected this. Hopefully, that isn't 'causing anything "quirky". Regards, Colleen -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
