Mariusz Pękala wrote: >>El Domingo, 11 de Diciembre de 2005 11:42, C. Beamer escribió: >> >> >>>My issue is this: The computer powered off in the middle of the install >>>of xorg-x11. This has happened a couple of times. I haven't been >>>having problems with the laptop, so I'm pretty sure the issue has >>>something to do with power management since I built power management >>>into the kernel, but didn't emerge acpid. >>> >>> > > > >>On 2005-12-11 17:32:46 +0100 (Sun, Dec), Rafael Fernández López wrote: >>I can't find any sense at that issue: I can't understand what's the reason >>that make your computer turn off in a compilation. >> >>Well... I'm afraid of temperature. I hope that's not the reason, but is the >>first thing that came to my mind. Maybe in your laptop (I've an Amilo Fujitsu >>Siemens, and when compiling OO or KDE it is really hot), when it reachs some >>temperature it turns off because of security reasons. >> >>I cannot find any other reason. >> >> > >I vote for temperature issues too. That is my experience with some >Aristo laptop - it get very hot very easily and powers off when >temperature exceeds 85 C. > As it turned out, it *was* a temperature issue. But it was also an acpi issue which was my fault and my stupidity for not reading the Gentoo ACPI Guide.
Once I recompiled the kernel and set up ACPI with the scripts as outlined in the Guide, I was able to emerge xorg-x11 no problem. The laptop got warm, but nowhere near hot! :-) The more I deal with Gentoo, the more I realize that the Gentoo documentation is an invaluable resource and there can't be enough said about it! :-) Thanks again to all who responded to this thread. Regards, Colleen -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
