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Yes, it's a new Acer, with a Amd64 Turion mobile mk-38. I had thought |
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initially that the cpu was to blame for the freezups as indeed I have |
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never installed on this particular processor. |
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So far, so good with the freezing, though. I propped the machine up, |
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and all seems to be going smoothly... |
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Does anyone know of any special considerations I should take with the processor? |
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Thanks. |
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On 7/30/07, Dan Cowsill <danthehat@×××××.com> wrote: |
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> Yes, I've done some reading and indeed it probably is overheating. |
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> I'll probably prop it up on some jewel cases and blow a fan at it |
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> until I can get a working system. Then I'll investigate cpu frequency |
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> scaling. |
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> Thanks for your advice. |
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> On 7/30/07, Daniel da Veiga <danieldaveiga@×××××.com> wrote: |
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> > On 7/30/07, Dan Cowsill <danthehat@×××××.com> wrote: |
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> > > I just got myself a new laptop and wanted to install Gentoo on it. |
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> > > After getting a working base system installed, I tried to install |
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> > > Xorg-x11, but the machine froze while trying to compile gcc. Keep in |
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> > > mind, there were no error messages, logs or anything of that nature. |
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> > > Just a straight up lack of any sort of control over the system. |
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> > > Now, just a little while ago I decided I'd try a different approach. |
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> > > I thought perhaps the problem lies in how I compiled the kernel. I |
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> > > tried to emerge gcc in the livecd environment with my gentoo install |
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> > > chrooted and sure enough, same deal. |
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> > > Does anyone know what could cause this? Or perhaps, what I should |
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> > > look for to solve this problem? |
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> > Probably your laptop overheated... It happened to me once. |
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> > Make sure that all fans are not obstructed in any way, and think about |
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> > setting up CPU frequency scaling according to the CPU temperature, was |
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> > the only way to get my laptop to compile stuff like GCC and |
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> > OpenOffice, to set it down to 2.0 GHz when it reaches 70 degrees, |
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> > instead of its full 2.6GHz. |
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