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On Friday 05 May 2006 09:06 pm, JimD wrote: |
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> Ok, this is a three part question. I am on "vacation" and I am using my |
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> wife's laptop that used to have winxp and now has Gentoo. Starting |
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> today I started to get garbled video output followed by a lock-up. I |
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> have been using the laptop as my dev platform and keeping it running |
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> 24x7. I am not sure if this is messing it up or not. It seems to stay |
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> pretty warm. I bought an extra 1GB of mem for the laptop and put that |
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> in today after the first lockup. I ran memtest for about 10 minutes and |
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> didn't see any issues. |
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Laptops are NOT meant to run 24/7. They don't have the cooling to survive for |
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more than a few hours. Get some fans or something to save it before you fry |
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something. |
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> The laptop has an Intel "Extreme" graphics chip. Every time before the |
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> lockup, the video gets all messed up with vertical and horizontal |
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> lines. I just went in the bios and changed the CPU speed to LOW which |
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> is now 800Mhz Pentium M instead of 1.73GHz, changed the screen |
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> brightness to the lowest. I also switched the X driver from i810 to |
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> vesa. So far it seems a little more stable. However, after a recent |
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> startx, when X first comes up I see a quick flash of my previous desktop |
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> on the screen. It seems like the memory wasn't cleared and the junk |
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> left in it is displayed for a second while X is initializing. This |
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> "Extreme" chip uses system memory. Has anyone had issue like this? |
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Couple times. I use a IBM X40 with the i810 drivers. Mine is a Intel Extreme |
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Graphics 2 chip. I hate its guts. It's so non-standard it's like finding a |
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needle in a haystack to get anything to work with it. Right now I have a |
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problem like so: |
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I send the machine into sleep mode. I come out of sleep mode and the screen |
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is off. I restart X with ctrl+alt+backspace and the screen revives. Nothing |
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I know of can restore the screen to activity without killing and then |
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reviving X. |
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The Intel graphics chips are still very new as far as linux support is |
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concerned, at least in my experience. I'd give it some time. |
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> I have always been a desktop person so I am not used to these "tender" |
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> laptops. Do these issues sound like they are caused by over heating? |
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> Or could it be hardware? This thing is only 2-3 months old. I better |
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> not have to send it to Toshiba already. I have a Satellite M45-S2692. |
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Stop running it 24/7! It's not *supposed* to do that! |
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> Now for the games part. I can't compile/play some of the bigger games |
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> and now I am POed : ) |
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What games? |
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> Are there any recommendations for fun games in Gentoo that could run |
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> fine with the vesa drive? I am trying to find some game to help pass |
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> the time on my "vacation" at my in-laws ; ) |
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Some guys I eat lunch with have gotten a amazing amount of enjoyment out of a |
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game called KBounce. |
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