Laptop (HP DV9700) Goes into Sleep Mode, No cause/reason

[NagaDrag]

For some reason, after about 2-3 hours of this laptop working, or just idling, all the processes seem to go into Sleeping mode.

It seemed to have frozen, but yet, not frozen (opening or closing the laptop lid has no effect). The mouse still moves, and I can press buttons, or such, but nothing opens, or responds.

I had System Monitor up, at the past couple of times it did it, set to the "Processes" tab, and every time, I noticed, the machine went to sleep, without a cause, or a reason (as the lid was up, or it was still in use at that point)

I have no idea why, nor where to look for the cause.

Laptop: DV9700 using the IHC8 (Intel Chipset)

[pappy_mcfae]

Start looking in your kernel .config. If this seems daunting, then send it (yes, all of it) as well as the results of lspci -n, cat /proc/cpuinfo, and emerge --info and /etc/fstab here, and I'll see what you have set up improperly in your kernel .config.

Or, if you'd rather do it for yourself, click on my sig, and use one of my kernel seeds. All you do is add the hardware devices, and you're off and running with a tweaked out kernel.

Blessed be!
Pappy
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[NagaDrag]

[ZeuZ_NG]

Are you using laptop-mode?
Same thing happen to me a while ago, and I don't recall how I fixed it, but it was related to it.
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[techcode]

I had freeze-up problems too on my laptop with ATI HD 2400PRO - they went away after I downgraded ATI drivers from latest stable ones to some older ones. I tried also newer/older ones that are masked with same luck. Difference was that once frozen I could not move mouse pointer and that it was happening mostly on text scroll (web pages).

v8.501 - didn't work
v8.493-r10 - kind of works - no freezing but sometimes artifacts in the game - and sometimes freezes the computer when I start the game, but very rarely. Yet no freezing in normal desktop usage.

I also tried various other versions, both newer and older (and masked ones) but settled for v8.493-r10

Right now I'm running the latest stable (same ones that didn't work before) on another new computer (integrated HD3200 - based on same chip as the other one) and experienced one freeze while trying to start ETQW - I could move my mouse pointer but nothing else. Other times I could start the game but it would break/exit and bring me back to desktop when tried to connect to some server ....

[pappy_mcfae]

Zen isn't cooperating, so I'm bowing out on this one.

Blessed be!
Pappy
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[NagaDrag]

I've upgraded the kernel to 2.6.26-gentoo-r1 , and cleaned up a bit, on what was compiling and what wasn't (useless stuff got taken out)

At the moment, the problem stands, except, where before it would do the whole 'freezing up' over a period of about 15 minutes, it is now doing it in a period of 15 seconds.

I have uninstalled laptop-mode-tools, and will see how this effects it

I have also done a hard-drive and a memory check, and there are no errors

Suggestions welcome on where to look, seeing as 'messages' and 'dmesg' do not give out any info, and everything that I seem to come across, does not show an error of any kind, before a 'shut-down'

[pappy_mcfae]

Is Gentoo the only OS you have on this system? If not, do the others have this problem?

Do you have an older kernel that allows things to work?

Blessed be!
Pappy
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[NagaDrag]

[pappy_mcfae]

That particular system may just be sensitive to something in your Gentoo setup. For instance, this computer has some problems with the way that alsa interacts with the sound card, and sometimes, this computer also experiences the setting hardware clock freeze.

Of the three systems I have, this one is the most sensitive. And while it's never locked up during an important operation, it sure has had more than its fair share of trouble. And of course, it works perfectly with Windoze.

Post the results of emerge --info to see if there's something weird in your setup.

Blessed be!
Pappy
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[NagaDrag]

[pappy_mcfae]

The first thing that jumps out at me is that you're using gcc-4.3.1, which is still unstable, and problematic.

You seem to be running a full bore unstable system. Doing that, you have to accept that there are going to be problems. While I am running gcc-4.2.3, which is technically unstable, I've read few reports of that version of gcc being exceptionally problematic, so I don't look at it as unstable. I've used it with both x86 and x86_64, and haven't had a problem.

Hopefully, someone will come along and say that gcc-4.3.1 caused this kind of problem. Barring that, you might want to consider making a bug report about this problem.

Blessed be!
Pappy
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[NagaDrag]

[ZeuZ_NG]

[pappy_mcfae]

Yes, and you might want to consult the Gentoo GCC Upgrade Guide before starting.

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Pappy
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