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

[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 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.

The laptop has an Intel "Extreme" graphics chip.  Every time before the 
lockup, the video gets all messed up with vertical and horizontal 
lines.  I just went in the bios and changed the CPU speed to LOW which 
is now 800Mhz Pentium M instead of 1.73GHz, changed the screen 
brightness to the lowest.  I also switched the X driver from i810 to 
vesa.  So far it seems a little more stable.  However, after a recent 
startx, when X first comes up I see a quick flash of my previous desktop 
on the screen.  It seems like the memory wasn't cleared and the junk 
left in it is displayed for a second while X is initializing.  This 
"Extreme" chip uses system memory.  Has anyone had issue like this?

I have always been a desktop person so I am not used to these "tender" 
laptops.  Do these issues sound like they are caused by over heating?  
Or could it be hardware?  This thing is only 2-3 months old.  I better 
not have to send it to Toshiba already.  I have a Satellite M45-S2692.

Now for the games part.  I can't compile/play some of the bigger games 
and now I am POed : )
Are there any recommendations for fun games in Gentoo that could run 
fine with the vesa drive?  I am trying to find some game to help pass 
the time on my "vacation" at my in-laws ; )

Thanks,

Jim
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