also sprach Karl E. Jorgensen <karl@jorgensen.com> [2002.11.27.1615 +0100]: > When the temperature (allegedly) goes to 85 degrees, was it by any > chance 42 degrees before then? > 85 = 1010101 > 42 = 0101010 > which is almost too much to be a coincidence... Nice observation. It's quite possible. But I can't test it because it always jumps to 85C after resuming, so I have no way to look at the temperature before... > I see from another thread that you're also suffering from random lost > keystrokes - is this the same laptop? yes. > If so, I would be inclined to run it: > > - without i8kutils : because of Dell's refusal to provide useful info > to the i8k author - there is a small chance that this specific > version of the BIOS does not like the way i8k tickles it. will try. > - without apm : buggy [DH]ell BIOS'es are not unheard of. My BIOS had > a bug where it would overcharge the battery, and thus kill it off > much sooner than necessary. I ended up upgrading the BIOS and > getting non-dell batteries in protest. will try. > - or perhaps with ACPI instead of APM for a walk on the wild side... will try. > My money is on a buggy BIOS - it's a [dh]ell after all ... right. screw Dell! they just lost a customer and I will also propagate the word! -- .''`. 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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