On Wednesday 08 October 2008 12:02:09 Brian Schau wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I am seeing strange behaviour on my laptop. I've been running
> diverse distributions (OpenSUSE, Ubuntu and others) - my
> current being gOS 3.0 gadgets.
> No matter the distribution I see unexpected shutdowns! That is - one
> second I work, the other I don't. The laptop shuts
> itself off without any prior notice.
>
> If I disable ACPI the unexpected shutdown disappears (and I loose a
> bunch of other good stuff :-(
>
> I don't know how to diagnose this further so I am asking for help here.
>
> For starters I've attached the output from lsusb and lspci.
>
> I am running kernel 2.6.24-19.
>
> How to proceed? I am willing to test ... :-)
Are this critical thermal shutdowns?
grep -i critical /var/log/messages
should reveal that.
If yes:
- watch your fan/temperature states:
/proc/acpi/{thermal_zone,fan}
- Does cpufreq work?
- Maybe
echo 15 >/proc/acpi/thermal_zone/*/polling_frequency
helps then?
Thomas
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