From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <bh40@calva.net>
To: Josh Huber <huberj@WPI.EDU>, linuxppc-dev@lists.linuxppc.org
Subject: Re: Lombard shuts itself off
Date: Fri, 17 Sep 1999 18:10:56 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <19990917181056.027066@mailhost.mipsys.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <14306.21109.970188.33759@cpu.wpi.edu>
On Fri, Sep 17, 1999, Josh Huber <huberj@WPI.EDU> wrote:
>It's almost as if the battery gets disconnected sometimes:
>I put the machine to sleep in MacOS, unplug the power strip, put it in
my case,
>and walk around with it for a while, open the case up, and...oh look at that
>the led isn't blinking any more!
>
>Then, the same thing started happening with linux...
>
>It gets to a point where I can't get the machine to boot again without
putting
>the power plug back in.
>
>I was suspicious of a faulty battery bay, so I (temporarily) moved the
battery
>over to the other bay last night -- we'll see how that works.
I have a similar problem with my wallstreet. It seems to survive quite
well when travelling with in bag, but when working with it on my knees, A
brutal move sometimes disconnects the battery.
There is still a possibility of a problem with PMU communication. This
beast is quite sensitive to various timing issues, and when something
goes wrong, it shuts the machine down abruptly.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~1999-09-17 16:10 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1999-09-17 6:49 Lombard shuts itself off Shaw Terwilliger
1999-09-17 14:38 ` Josh Huber
1999-09-17 15:27 ` Michael Schmitz
1999-09-17 15:32 ` Shaw Terwilliger
1999-09-17 17:29 ` David A. Gatwood
1999-09-17 20:14 ` Shaw Terwilliger
1999-09-17 16:10 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt [this message]
1999-09-19 14:31 ` Josh Huber
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