[Preston] Re: Desktop user problem Suse 9.2 hangs

[Stephen]

Richard Shepherd wrote:

>Sorry; AMD Athlon 2.6 on KT 400 chipset with 1 Gig RAM
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>On Sun, 2005-05-08 at 17:26 +0200, Richard Shepherd wrote:
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>>Desktop user problem
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>>Suse 9.2 Pro 2.6.8.2-4 kernel
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>>CPU runs at 53 - 56ºC
>>Have disabled screensaver
>>Box konks out after an hour or so if left idle, or downloading or
>>listening to radio, only option to power down manually (ooh, Ihate dong
>>that!) can't go away and leave it.
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>>Any ideas?
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>>Cheers, Rick Shepherd, Madrid (yes I am a member)
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>>PS. Can send log if that will help
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It sounds like the problem is acpi. I know the old kernel had a hell of 
a time with acpi, but recently they have seemed to fix this best thing 
to do is to build your own kernel and make sure it has support built in.