Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo Installation on Dell Inspiron Laptop

2007-04-02 Thread Colleen Beamer
Iain Buchanan wrote: > On Sun, 2007-04-01 at 14:29 -0400, Colleen Beamer wrote: > > >> Will consider memtest as an option, but again, the memory is reasonably >> new - it was upgraded recently to have more memory on the laptop. > > aha! that rings alarm bells... new memory? no possibility it's

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo Installation on Dell Inspiron Laptop

2007-04-02 Thread Iain Buchanan
On Sun, 2007-04-01 at 14:29 -0400, Colleen Beamer wrote: > Will consider memtest as an option, but again, the memory is reasonably > new - it was upgraded recently to have more memory on the laptop. aha! that rings alarm bells... new memory? no possibility it's faulty? or was fitted with a tiny

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo Installation on Dell Inspiron Laptop

2007-04-01 Thread Colleen Beamer
Iain Buchanan wrote: > On Sat, 2007-03-31 at 08:49 -0400, Colleen Beamer wrote: >> Hi all, >> >> I'm having a problem. > [snip] >> and then, the laptop shuts off on me. > > It does sound like an overheating thing, as already mentioned, > especially since you had overheating problems before. I si

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo Installation on Dell Inspiron Laptop

2007-04-01 Thread Iain Buchanan
On Sat, 2007-03-31 at 08:49 -0400, Colleen Beamer wrote: > Hi all, > > I'm having a problem. [snip] > and then, the laptop shuts off on me. It does sound like an overheating thing, as already mentioned, especially since you had overheating problems before. Can you confirm that _all_ fans are wo

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo Installation on Dell Inspiron Laptop

2007-03-31 Thread Mick
On Saturday 31 March 2007 13:49, Colleen Beamer wrote: > I got to the > point where I chroot'd and started the kernel compile. The compile > starts and then, the laptop shuts off on me. On initial start with the > Stage 3 install CD, I started using 'gentoo dopcmcia nolvm2 agpgart > acpi=on', bu