Re:Ubuntu 10.10 (Maverick Meerkat) Release Candidate
by jsz0 on Thursday September 30, 2010 @01:51PM
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Poor sleep/wake stability was the single biggest reason I gave up on Linux. I was running Ubuntu on my HP nc8430 and had to rush out the door so I closed the lid and didn't wait to make sure it went to sleep properly. I tossed my backpack into my car and when I came back a few hours later I found out the machine never went to sleep. It got so hot that the enclosure actually melted and warped. Probably lucky it didn't catch on fire in there. Amazingly the machine still worked but the physical damage to the enclosure prevents the lid from closing properly and it won't sit flat on a desk anymore.
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Re:Ubuntu 10.10 (Maverick Meerkat) Release Candidate
by wwortiz on Thursday September 30, 2010 @04:34PM
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Not to take anything away from the problem but if your machine got so hot it melted because it was on that sounds more like a hardware problem.
Re:Ubuntu 10.10 (Maverick Meerkat) Release Candidate
by niels_olson on Thursday September 30, 2010 @05:58PM
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Not to take away from either of you, but I had a very similar problem with Windows XP on a Dell Inspiron 9300. I would open my insulated laptop backpack, at least once every few months, to find a computer too hot to touch and the smell of baking foamcore. I have not had that problem with Ubuntu, and it has been running on that machine since 7.04.
Re:Ubuntu 10.10 (Maverick Meerkat) Release Candidate
by jsz0 on Thursday September 30, 2010 @09:28PM
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It was compounded by a hot day and being inside a backpack. The problem I was having at the time was a hard lockup of the system on sleep maybe 30-40% of the time due to the ATI graphics driver. My best guess is once the machine hard locked ACPI was unavailable to auto-shutdown the machine once the CPU passed its threshold so it ran until the battery died instead.