Ubuntu Stability (WAS: Ubuntu PPC 4.10 Installed on new Mac Mini)

[Kent Frazier]

On Tue, 25 Jan 2005 16:30:54 +0100, Vincent Trouilliez
<vincent.trouilliez at wanadoo.fr> wrote:

> If it doesn't improve things, maybe the CPU is at fault. It's an AMD
> Athlon XP 1700+ (1.45GHz), which has run at 65 degrees for over 2 years.
> Maybe that's too hot, and it damaged it over time ? It's only very
> recently, on this list, that I was suggested to install the package
> "athcool", which enables the 'hlt' intruction, which makes the CPU run
> MUCH cooler, about 30/35 degrees, most of the time (when not playing 3D
> games or ripping audio CD's)

Hey Vince.  This is just a thought, but did you have instability
issues before you installed athcool?  The info for athcool suggests
that it can cause instability.  Check it out:

(from apt-cache show athcool)

 !!!WARNING!!!
 Depending on your motherboard and/or hardware components, enabling
 Athlon powersaving mode sometimes causes:
 .
  * noisy or distorted sound playback,
  * a slowdown in harddisk performance,
  * system locks or instability,
  * massive corruption of the filesystem (observed at least once).
 .
 If you met those problems, you should not use athcool. Please use
 athcool AT YOUR OWN RISK.

If they were around before that, then I really don't know.

Good luck.

Kent