also sprach Tim Connors <tconnors@astro.swin.edu.au> [2002.11.27.0222 +0100]: > Damn. I don't think I will ever touch Dell laptops ever again. My own > I4000 has had problems, such as 2 wonky HD's, but they just seem so damn > unreliable, and have a lot of bios bugs. I won't either. Not only have they severly dropped in quality over the last three years, Dell is also a bunch of assholes doing support, they don't stick to their warranty claims, and, last but not least, Michael Dell and Bill Gates have Sex with each other. > Also - your hdd statement: try unmasking interrupts using hdparm. This > helps modem traffic a lot, and might also help the KB - if there is a lot > of hdd activity (and laptop disks are very slow), then the KB just never > gets a chance to signal to the CPU that "HEY! LOOK HERE. I HAVE A > KEYSTROKE FOR YOU. FEED ME!". :) unmaskirq = 1 (on) unfortunately, this is already set.. > As for the temperature thing, can you cat /proc/apm and the i8k file under > /proc (I can't remember what is is called - perhaps you might have to do a > strace on i8kutils when it reads the temperature from the kernel, if it is > not obviously under /proc) when there is a problem, and then again when > there is not a problem? I don't have the problem right now, but it's something like this: No problem: 1.0 A12 CZ2H90J 56 0 0 0 0 -1 0 Problem: 1.0 A12 CZ2H90J 85 2 2 9600 6600 -1 0 > Is this flavour laptop aimed more at APM or ACPI for power > management? The newer ones tend to work better on ACPI than APM. Aha, I have avoided ACPI so far, but I guess I will jump into it. -- .''`. martin f. krafft <madduck@debian.org> : :' : proud Debian developer, admin, and user `. `'` `- Debian - when you have better things to do than fixing a system NOTE: The public PGP keyservers are broken! Get my key here: http://people.debian.org/~madduck/gpg/330c4a75.asc
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