Might be getting hot. I have a laptop that runs hotter under MS than OpenSUSE most of the time, except when compiling or running a lot of stuff. Have you noticed the fan behavior? Does it always run at high speed, never run at high speed? There are a lot of tweaks you can do with regard to power management. I wonder if the cpu is not scaling down when the load is low?
On my Thinkpad I used to have a custom speedstep/cpu scaling configuration, the cpu ran at 200MHz most of the time, stayed nice and cool. Linc Lincoln Rutledge Network Engineer OSC Networking 800-627-6420 >>> Aaron Kulkis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 01/24/08 1:07 PM >>> Sampsa Riikonen wrote: > Dear List, > > I have suse 10.3 installed on a hp tx1000 laptop. > I am using KDE. > > Ultimately, the system has become very unstable.. > It halts completely very frequently. I have observed > this halt while browsing the web (it has happened both > with firefox and the konqueror), but I suppose it can > happen with any program..(?) That sounds like overheating. Rendering web pages can be very CPU - intensive. My laptop's fan runs at a one of three speeds, depending on CPU temp...and web browsing is the primary cause of almost all occurances of the fan going to its highest speed. The solution involves managing your CPU temp, making sure that your air inlet is kept both clean and away from any obstruction (like resting the intake right on your leg). And get a laptop cooler thing that plugs into a USB port and keeps a good airflow under the whole laptop. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
