Hi Everyone,
Has there been any resolution of this issue? I am having these sudden
power downs on a Lombard powerbook. It only happens when I'm active at
the computer. The power just shuts off. I'm using Breezy with the
latest updates. I'm hoping the Debian people here have figured it out
so I can fix it. Linux is supposed to be stable, and this certainly isn't.
Thanks,
Rob
I recently dist-upgraded from Ubuntu Hoary to Ubuntu Breezy (5.10)
and then began experiencing the sudden random power losses. Since
I'm running a 1998 PowerBook G3 Series (aka "Wallstreet II" or
"PDQ") my first thoughts were aging hardware, or the nearly dead
PRAM battery. (I'd LIKE to replace it, but what an ordeal!)
Ubuntu 5.10's kernel is 2.6.12-10-powerpc.
As others in this thread have mentioned, the machine NEVER powers
itself down when idle -- it's always when it's being actively used,
like composing a gmail message. (Thank goodness Google added
autosaves!) Mine has not (yet) powered down during a CPU-intensive
activity such as a compile. I removed the PCMCIA network card and
switched power supply bricks, but it still shuts down. No relevant
messages in any log, but I keep the hard drive idle most of the time
so it may just be losing the final messages most of the time.
Pbbuttonsd reports version 0.7.1 (and I have been having some other
trouble with it) so I stopped it now to see whether the reliability
is better. I'm not running any of the other daemons mentioned in the
thread -- no pmud, no mouseemu, no powernowd.
cat /proc/cpuinfo
processor : 0
cpu : 740/750
temperature : 55-57 C (uncalibrated)
clock : 264MHz
revision : 2.2 (pvr 0008 0202)
bogomips : 530.43
machine : PowerBook
motherboard : AAPL,PowerBook1998 MacRISC
detected as : 50 (PowerBook Wallstreet)
pmac flags : 00000009
L2 cache : 1024K unified pipelined-syncro-burst
memory : 384MB
l2cr override : 0xb9110000
pmac-generation : OldWorld
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Rob Frohne, Ph.D., P.E.
E. F. Cross School of Engineering
Walla Walla College
100 SW 4th Street
College Place, WA 99324
(509) 527-2075
http://www.wwc.edu/~frohro
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