On Wednesday 09 February 2005 21:36, Scot L. Harris shaped the electrons to say: > On Wed, 2005-02-09 at 14:31, Peter James Morgan wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I have a Dell Inspiron 5150 laptop that has been running FC1 for the > > last year (or so). I took the plunge last weekend and did a clean > > install on the machine with FC3. Very impressed by the smooth > > installation, and initially very happy - especially with "yum update" > > very neat! > > > > However, the machine is now "freezing" on a semi random basis, > > particularly under heavy load. Though, I left it alone idling today and > > when I came back it had again frozen. When it freezes under load, the > > CPU fan can be heard at (I guess) 100% for a couple of minutes while it > > is frozen, then shortly after the machine powers itself off. The last > > couple of under load freeze were at the same time as the CPU fan > > stepping up another "gear". > > > > The freeze happens when running under 2.6.10-1.760_FC3smp (the machine > > is HT with a 3Ghz Intel processor) and also 2.6.10-1.760_FC3. > > > > With acpi=off, the machine appears to be stable. > > > > With FC1 I was able to run this laptop with acpi=on (only with > > uniprocessor mode, didn't trust HT with 2.4), without any problems with > > stability. > > > > Unfortunately, nothing of interest is being written to /var/log. Is > > there a recommended mechanism of debugging this fault? Any pointers to > > other things that I can configure (e.g., could the CPU speed stepping be > > the source of the problem?) > > Is there anyway to determine what the temperature of the system is? > > >From the description it sounds like the fans may not be running when > > they should and the system overheats at which point it shuts it self > down to protect itself. > > With acpi off if it is stable does the fan run all the time? > > Not sure but it seems like there should be some where to specify > thresholds for when the fan runs. I believe there is a plugin in gkrellm for dell laptops that can set these thresholds for you. i8k something or other. -- Scott Ryan Telkom Internet
