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Ian K wrote: |
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>Hi there. |
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>My new laptop (Toshiba A70) is seriously weirding me out. |
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>It seems to be turning off (randomly?) while in KDE. I cannot |
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>distinguish any patterns uptime-wise, nor is it an actual power |
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>failure. (Nothing else dies, battery prescence is confirmed with |
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>hardware lighting, and this lighting indicates a full charge. |
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>I also see no real connections between what I am doing when |
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>the computer turns off. Once, I was browsing the web in Firefox, |
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>and tonight, I was playing around with the XScreensaver settings. |
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>I have noticed, that it seems to only happen while in KDE, although |
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>Im not 100% sure. Also, I have the KDE laptop battery monitor set |
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>to do *nothing* if the battery should reach a warning or critical |
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>power value. This has happened to be about 6 times over the last |
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>few days. I also just got KDE emerged, so I can say its been happening |
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>probably since it has been up. I have left it on for extended amounts |
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>of time in the regular CLI though, without any problems. |
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>I can't really think of anything else to say, but I should mention that |
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>it **seems** to do a safe shutdown, but Im not sure. The power is |
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>cut rather instantly, and I am not swished off into a system reboot |
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>message. When I start it up again, ReiserFS claims the file system is |
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>clean, and goes on to replay the journal as usual. Do any of |
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>you have any thoughts on this? Thanks a lot! |
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>Ian |
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Are you getting anything in /var/log/messages? |
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-Richard |
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