Gentoo shuts down without warning

muc-gentoo · n00b Joined: 12 Apr 2008 Posts: 21

Hi,

my Gentoo (actually Sabayon 5.3) shuts down once in a while my laptop (Lenovo T500) without prior notice. At first I thought it would be the temperature, but executing

tomk · Posted: Fri Jun 25, 2010 9:52 am Post subject:

Moved from Kernel & Hardware to Unsupported Software as Sabayon is not officially supported.
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krinn · Watchman Joined: 02 May 2003 Posts: 7470

if your sabayon shutdown nicely then it's a call for shutdown, if the software trigger is higher than current temp it doesn't mean the bios might have a trigger lower than your current temp.
Check bios for auto shutdown on temperature level.

i might also add, that shutdown a laptop because of temperature is highly common for laptop.
Must be what sabayon guys told you.

d2_racing · Posted: Fri Jun 25, 2010 12:46 pm Post subject:

Does it shutdown when you compile something or it's really a random problem ?

muc-gentoo · n00b Joined: 12 Apr 2008 Posts: 21

It is rather random. I have loaded the coretemp and hddtemp modules, yet to no avail.

I think I need to throttle down the processor in order not to heat too much ("underclocking" / "downclocking"), anybody any ideas how to do it?

d2_racing · Posted: Mon Jul 05, 2010 12:58 pm Post subject:

Yes, you should enable the gouvernor powersave or something similar inside the kernel.