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Mick wrote: |
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> Laptops generally get warm/hot to the touch. What sort of |
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> temperatures does it show? |
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That is one of the problems with the blasted laptop. Speedstep and |
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sensors are not working. I don't know if it is an Intel thing or a |
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Toshiba thing. I should have gotten an AMD laptop. My AMD64 desktop |
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runs great and everything works, especially the Cool-n-Quite. I have |
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been trying to see if there is a patch for speedstep. The laptop is 3 |
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months old and has a Pentium M - Sonoma: |
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jim@kaleb $ cat /proc/cpuinfo |
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processor : 0 |
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vendor_id : GenuineIntel |
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cpu family : 6 |
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model : 13 |
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model name : Intel(R) Pentium(R) M processor 1.73GHz |
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stepping : 8 |
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cpu MHz : 1729.164 |
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cache size : 2048 KB |
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fpu : yes |
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fpu_exception : yes |
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cpuid level : 2 |
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wp : yes |
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flags : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 sep mtrr pge mca |
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cmov pat clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss tm pbe nx est tm2 |
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bogomips : 3466.07 |
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I looked at speedstep-centrino.c in the kernel source and added the |
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Sonoma. However it still does not work and I just get: |
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FATAL: Error inserting speedstep_centrino |
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(/lib/modules/2.6.16-gentoo-r6/kernel/arch/i386/kernel/cpu/cpufreq/speedstep-centrino.ko): |
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No such device |
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> memetest should run overnight to get a reliable result. I remember |
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> reading either in this list or in the Gentoo forums why memtest is not |
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> the best test for memory integrity. There's a script somewhere which |
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> will also put your memory controller under some pressure. I'll post |
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> back if I can find it. |
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I tried that. Last night memtest got through the first 4 tests. When |
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test 5 came the screen got all garbaled, though the test kept running. |
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I let the laptop cool overnight and this morning ran just test #5 and it |
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completed. I then booted to Gnome and the screen got garbaled. |
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> If as you say your video card is sharing the system memory and the |
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> memory is suspect, then that would explain why you are getting all |
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> these video display problems. Does reverting back to the old memory |
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> chip improve matters? |
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Could different memory modules from different manufacturers not work |
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well together, though work well alone? I just took out the 512MB DDR2 |
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that came with the laptop and put just the 1GB DD2 in that I bought and |
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this is the longest it has stayed running since yesterday. |
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> Regards, |
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> Mick |
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Thanks Mick. |
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Jim |
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