Re: Toshiba satellite L750-170 locking up
----- Original Message -----
> From: "Jakub Ambrożewicz" <jakub.ambrozewicz@googlemail.com>
> To: debian-laptop@lists.debian.org
> Sent: Thursday, 14 February, 2013 7:37:20 PM
> Subject: Re: Toshiba satellite L750-170 locking up
>
> Dnia 2013-02-14, czw o godzinie 09:22 +0000, Chris Evans pisze:
> > What happens is that the machine is running fine and then locks
> > completely. It's happened three times now in the last 24 hours,
> > once
> > when I was at the machine, twice when I wasn't. The screen stays
> > on
> > and on the first occasion I could still move the mouse but clicking
> > did nothing nor did typing anything, on the other two occasions the
> > the screen was black but that could have been after the timeout had
> > blacked it out and again no keyboard movements did anything. I've
> > given my android 'phone an ssh client and can confirm that on these
> > last two occasions I can't ssh in from outside either: the machine
> > has
> > dropped the network.
> First thing, may be dull but I need to get it off my chest: is it not
> overheating?
Interesting. I think that may not be dull at all but useful. One thing I've noticed is that the machine was making more noise and I'm sure the noise is fan noise. I was puzzled by that but hadn't really connected with it. The machine is only ten months old, I wasn't pushing it at all at the times it crashed so can't be overheating. But maybe it is. I have now put a temperature monitor onto the gnome top bar so can watch that (though I have a horrible feeling that sometimes you need some pretty machine specific information for those things to give you accurate information.)
> Second, back from the days of funny BIOSes and incorrectly behaving
> hardware I remember having to run kernel with a combination of
> noapic,
> nolapic, lapic, biosirq, acpi=off and others. Give them a try.
>
> Quick look at modern kernels tells that there's now a lot more of
> other options available...
This too may be helpful. If I am right that the options would show in grub.cfg then I am running without any such options. Is there a sensible resource I can look at to see if any options might help (and, if so, how to add them to the call for the kernel)?
> Best regards,
> --
> Jakub
Many thanks,
Chris
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