Re: [gentoo-user] Bad mem, over heat and games

2006-05-09 Thread JimD
Jeremy Olexa wrote: Configure ACPI to run the proc at the lowest speed unless it is under a load. I leave my laptop on for days at a time..the longest uptime is 8 days so far. My proc speed is always set at 600mhz unless it is under a load and then it jumps to 1.7ghz, it works well.. OK. That

Re: [gentoo-user] Bad mem, over heat and games

2006-05-09 Thread Jeremy Olexa
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 JimD wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >> Laptops are NOT meant to run 24/7. They don't have the cooling to >> survive for more than a few hours. Get some fans or something to save >> it before you fry something. > > Oh, great! Now you tell me ;

Re: [gentoo-user] Bad mem, over heat and games

2006-05-08 Thread JimD
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Laptops are NOT meant to run 24/7. They don't have the cooling to survive for more than a few hours. Get some fans or something to save it before you fry something. Oh, great! Now you tell me ; ) For the last week I have been running it from about 9:00 AM until 2:0

Re: [gentoo-user] Bad mem, over heat and games

2006-05-08 Thread lordsauronthegreat
On Friday 05 May 2006 09:06 pm, JimD wrote: > Ok, this is a three part question. I am on "vacation" and I am using my > wife's laptop that used to have winxp and now has Gentoo. Starting > today I started to get garbled video output followed by a lock-up. I > have been using the laptop as my de

Re: [gentoo-user] Bad mem, over heat and games

2006-05-06 Thread JimD
Richard Fish wrote: Nope, never have. If you like, I can email you the relevant global, power management, and processor parts of my .config. Please send the .config, that could come in handy. I am probably just leaving out something. Thanks for the help, Jim -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-

Re: [gentoo-user] Bad mem, over heat and games

2006-05-06 Thread Richard Fish
On 5/6/06, JimD <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Did you use genkernel? Nope, never have. If you like, I can email you the relevant global, power management, and processor parts of my .config. -Richard -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Bad mem, over heat and games

2006-05-06 Thread JimD
Richard Fish wrote: Speedstep should definitely work "out-of-the-box" here. My 3 mo old Core Duo processor works great with the speedstep-centrino module. And my previous 6mo old laptop on Sonoma also worked great. Maybe you are missing some ACPI options? (ACPI processor is the big one I can

Re: [gentoo-user] Bad mem, over heat and games - update

2006-05-06 Thread JimD
Richard Fish wrote: One possibility may have to do with the memory timings of the old vs new memory. If the BIOS gives any manual control over the CAS, RAS, etc timings, you might try increasing them. I had to do this with my AMD64 desktop system, even though the memory modules were matched. T

Re: [gentoo-user] Bad mem, over heat and games

2006-05-06 Thread Richard Fish
On 5/6/06, JimD <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I looked at speedstep-centrino.c in the kernel source and added the Sonoma. However it still does not work and I just get: FATAL: Error inserting speedstep_centrino (/lib/modules/2.6.16-gentoo-r6/kernel/arch/i386/kernel/cpu/cpufreq/speedstep-centrino.k

Re: [gentoo-user] Bad mem, over heat and games

2006-05-06 Thread Richard Fish
On 5/6/06, JimD <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I tried that. Last night memtest got through the first 4 tests. When test 5 came the screen got all garbaled, though the test kept running. I let the laptop cool overnight and this morning ran just test #5 and it completed. I then booted to Gnome and

Re: [gentoo-user] Bad mem, over heat and games - update

2006-05-06 Thread Richard Fish
On 5/6/06, JimD <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: JimD wrote: > Ok, this is a three part question. I am on "vacation" and I am using my > wife's laptop that used to have winxp and now has Gentoo. Starting > today I started to get garbled video output followed by a lock-up. I > have been using the la

Re: [gentoo-user] Bad mem, over heat and games - update

2006-05-06 Thread JimD
JimD wrote: Ok, this is a three part question. I am on "vacation" and I am using my wife's laptop that used to have winxp and now has Gentoo. Starting today I started to get garbled video output followed by a lock-up. I have been using the laptop as my dev platform and keeping it running 2

Re: [gentoo-user] Bad mem, over heat and games

2006-05-06 Thread JimD
Mick wrote: Laptops generally get warm/hot to the touch. What sort of temperatures does it show? That is one of the problems with the blasted laptop. Speedstep and sensors are not working. I don't know if it is an Intel thing or a Toshiba thing. I should have gotten an AMD laptop. My AM

Re: [gentoo-user] Bad mem, over heat and games

2006-05-06 Thread Mick
On 06/05/06, JimD <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: 24x7. I am not sure if this is messing it up or not. It seems to stay pretty warm. I bought an extra 1GB of mem for the laptop and put that in today after the first lockup. I ran memtest for about 10 minutes and didn't see any issues. Laptops ge

[gentoo-user] Bad mem, over heat and games

2006-05-05 Thread JimD
Ok, this is a three part question. I am on "vacation" and I am using my wife's laptop that used to have winxp and now has Gentoo. Starting today I started to get garbled video output followed by a lock-up. I have been using the laptop as my dev platform and keeping it running 24x7. I am no