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Old 01-01-2005, 02:10 PM   #1
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Hi There
I have a Toshiba laptop and i just performed a Gentoo dual boot with windows xp on my laptop. Everything went good but now that is installed..i was trying to install x server and gnome...and any other emerge command when i give my computer while emerging suddenly shuts off...can anyone please help?
 
Old 01-01-2005, 03:00 PM   #2
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Your laptop is overheating. Did you compile in all the toshiba and acpi extras in the kernel?
You may want to consider setting a high velocity fan against the air vents so it'll stay cooler...

You only need this while compiling...
 
  


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