> |> My Gentoo laptop keeps freezing. It will stay up for about 30 minutes > |> and then stop responding altogether. I've checked the logs but there > |> is nothing informative there. I'm all up to date with packages. How > |> do you troubleshoot something like this? > |> > |> - Grant > | > | Start with "ls_sensors" and monitor CPU and motherboard temp. > +1 to that. I had a laptop that was doing the exact same thing. I > installed lm_sensors and saw that at rest my temp was generally 40C > (that's with powersave enabled). When I compiled the temp would go up > to 75C...I think the highest I ever got it was 77C.* A /little/ over 40 > is too hot... > > *For the Americans (like me) the easy way for C -> F is double it, > subtract 10% and add 32. So the temps would be 104F, 167F and 171F.
The laptop has stopped freezing now. Not sure what was going on. Thanks a lot for all the help and I'll refer back if I need to. - Grant -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
