[ltp] My labtop running linux keeps on crashing.

[Martin Fluch]

Strange .... I have some precompiled kernels (as debian packages) for my
TP770:

http://www.rzuser.uni-heidelberg.de/~mfluch/deb

Perhaps this solves the problem...
Martin

On Mon, 25 Oct 1999, Carlton Davis wrote:

> I have an IBM Thinkpad 770 with a 233 MHz processor, 128 MB ram and a 4
> GB hard drive.
> I partitioned the hard drive giving Micro $ NT and Linux approximately 2
> GB each. I 
> am running Debian 2.1 slink with linux kernel 2.2.12. The problem is
> that my OS of 
> choice--linux--keeps on crashing my labtop. I thought that this crashing
> problem was
> related to the old kernel (2.0.36) I was running; however, my labtop is
> still crashing
> when it left idle for over an hour even though I have upgraded my kernel
> to 2.2.12. 
> Someone had suggested installing apmd; I installed latest version of
> apmd and that didn't 
> help either.
> 
> In the kernel configuration (I attached my .config file) I enabled
> CONFIG_EXPERIMENTAL,   CONFIG_APM_IGNORE_MULTIPLE_SUSPEND,
> CONFIG_APM_IGNORE_SUSPEND_BOUNCE and CONFIG_APM_ALLOW_INTS as suggested
> by at "http://resources.inw.com/linux/thinkpad770/node11.html" but my
> labtop is still crashing.
> 
> The machine usually crashes when I leave it idle for over an hour. When
> the machine crashed
> it froze everything, even the power  button; I have to "unplug" the
> batery to restart the machine.
> 
> I will be very grateful of any help that I receive to resolve this
> problem.
> Thanks in advance.

-- 
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                                                               - anonymous

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