feisty fawn => laptop sudenly dead

Matthew Flaschen matthew.flaschen at gatech.edu
Fri Apr 13 20:23:58 UTC 2007


Ari Torhamo wrote:
> pe, 2007-04-13 kello 13:43 -0400, Matthew Flaschen kirjoitti:
>> Alain Muls wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> I switched to FF beta (I know) and worked for a cuple of days quite 
>>> comfortably. But than, all of a sudden the PC went dead. Pressing the power 
>>> button did not boot up and I had to use the diagnostic boot feature of the 
>>> Dell Inspiron. AFter that it worked again, but today the sudden death 
>>> appeared again. Is there something wrong with the management of the battery 
>>> in FF? I never had such a behaviour using DD LTS.
>> I know people say Firefox implements too much low-level
>> functionality...but somehow I don't think it's doing battery management.
>>   I would check your fan before you start suspecting userspace
>> applications. :)
> 
> 
> Is it FireFox or Feisty Fawn? :-)

Sorry, my bad. :)  I /still/ think the fan is a more likely problem, but
it could be the Feisty kernel.

Matthew Flaschen




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