Hi,

I just got a new Toshiba Satellite A105 with a 2.0Ghz Pentium M (2Mb cache) The installation of Mandriva went just fine, and I can use it for a while until it hangs. I have observed that the CPU frequency stays always at 2Ghz, so I am guessing that it overheats and shuts down.

I was able to disable high CPU frequencies on the BIOS, so now the system is at least usable, but I would like to know how should I go about fixing the problem.

I tried Knoppix and it was hanging also. On the other hand, Fedora Core 5 Test 1 was doing fine if it wasn't because the network card was not identified.

Has anyone seen this problem before?

Thank

Joan

$ uname -a
Linux localhost 2.6.12-12mdk #1 Fri Sep 9 18:15:22 CEST 2005 i686 Intel(R) Pentium(R) M processor 2.00GHz unknown GNU/Linux

$ cat /proc/cpuinfo
processor : 0
vendor_id : GenuineIntel
cpu family : 6
model : 13
model name : Intel(R) Pentium(R) M processor 2.00GHz
stepping : 8
cpu MHz : 798.218
cache size : 2048 KB
fdiv_bug : no
hlt_bug : no
f00f_bug : no
coma_bug : no
fpu : yes
fpu_exception : yes
cpuid level : 2
wp : yes
flags : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss tm pbe est tm2
bogomips : 1572.86

$ lspci
00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Mobile 915GM/PM/GMS/910GML Express Processor to DRAM Controller (rev 03)
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation Mobile 915GM/GMS/910GML Express Graphics Controller (rev 03)
00:02.1 Display controller: Intel Corporation Mobile 915GM/GMS/910GML Express Graphics Controller (rev 03)
00:1b.0 Class 0403: Intel Corporation 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) High Definition Audio Controller (rev 04)
00:1c.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) PCI Express Port 1 (rev 04)
00:1c.1 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) PCI Express Port 2 (rev 04)
00:1d.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) USB UHCI #1 (rev 04)
00:1d.1 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) USB UHCI #2 (rev 04)
00:1d.2 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) USB UHCI #3 (rev 04)
00:1d.3 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) USB UHCI #4 (rev 04)
00:1d.7 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) USB2 EHCI Controller (rev 04)
00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801 Mobile PCI Bridge (rev d4)
00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation 82801FBM (ICH6M) LPC Interface Bridge (rev 04)
00:1f.2 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82801FBM (ICH6M) SATA Controller (rev 04)
01:00.0 Ethernet controller: Marvell Technology Group Ltd. 88E8036 Fast Ethernet Controller (rev 10)
05:04.0 Network controller: Intel Corporation PRO/Wireless 2200BG (rev 05)
05:06.0 CardBus bridge: Texas Instruments: Unknown device 8039
05:06.1 FireWire (IEEE 1394): Texas Instruments: Unknown device 803a
05:06.2 Mass storage controller: Texas Instruments: Unknown device 803b
05:06.3 Class 0805: Texas Instruments: Unknown device 803c

How's your ACPI setup? I have that same machine and have been having issues with ACPI in Gentoo. The livecd seems to kick and fan on and keep everything under wraps but once inside my environment It won't. I can't get the speedstep_centrino module to load either. Toshiba extras I can't get to work either. You??? If you "cat /proc/acpi/thermal_zone/THCR/temperature what does it give you? (I think THCR & THCL) When I do this it will kick on the fan. Weird.

Yes, I have figured that the fan will turn on if I poll the temperature manually. I use acpi -V, but I suspect that cat /proc/acpi/thermal_zone/*/temperature has the exact same effect. Having to do this manually is by no means something that I consider acceptable. I can't get the CPU scaling working, but that is lower on my priority.

I will keep on posting my findings here

Joan

You might want to check bug #21328 on the mandriva website, I can't post the direct link for some odd reason


Joan