Re: About the laptops ...

[Juan Manuel García Molina <juanma_gm@wanadoo.es>]

El Mié 21 Ago 2002 15:36, Alessandro Speranza escribió:
> On Wed, 21 Aug 2002, Karl E. Jorgensen wrote:
> > On Wed, Aug 21, 2002 at 01:57:18PM +0100, Alessandro Speranza wrote:
> > [snip]
> >
> > > I can't keep mine [laptop, ed] on for too long, despite having all the
> > > latest acpi patches on a self-compiled 2.4.18 kernel. The CPU
> > > temperature, I think, is what causes mine to crash if I keep it on for
> > > too long (even throttling when I take a cigarette break)
> >
> > Sounds like your fan(s) aren't working hard enough. If it's a Dell, then
> > the i8kutils package might help you keep the temperature down.
>
> It's a compaq presario 700, and as far as I know the most of the one who
> have it had problems similar to mine. It is much better than at the
> beginning now, but still...

I think you'll find interesnting the following links:

http://www.pps.jussieu.fr/~jch/software/presario/
(the Power Management section in order to make ACPI work)

http://cip.uni-trier.de/nofftz/linux/Athlon-Powersaving-HOWTO.html
(really good)

Regards.

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Juan Manuel  García Molina
   juanma_gm@wanadoo.es