Hello * I have a big problem with a DELL Inspiron 8100. After nearly a year working with this machine running Debian Woody, I suddenly had some problems with the fans. After a suspend-to-RAM, and the wake-up 5 Minutes later, it startet with running both at full speed - even after I cooled down the computer for more than an hour (so I'm sure, it is not too hot). The DELL support told me to update the BIOS (it was A08, now I updated up to A14): Result: the fans are working correctly now (Why? Questions over questions), but now I have problems with the keyboard and the clock is loosing around 5 Minutes an hour. :-( But the more anoying problem is the keyboard: it swallows some letters from time to time (around 6 letters when writing about 3 sentences). DELL support changed the keyboard, but this did not help. So my question is: is here someone around who made the same or similar experience. And of course even more interesting: is there some possibllity to cure this "desease"[1]. Maybe some kernel options to set[2]. I would try to downgrade the BIOS again (but this seems to be not so easy, as the support told me, and of course not recommended by them. The new one is better, they say). [1]DELLs solution now: take one of our supported OS (AKA Windoze). =:-/ [2] Kernel is 2.4.20. The config file is on http://www-ae.e-technik.uni-rostock.de/home/karo/Configs/Kernel-Config.I8100 Sorry, but the rest of the site is mostly in german, the english part is very "work in progress". Thanks for any help. -- Karsten Rothemund, Institut f. Allgemeine Elektrotechnik, Universitaet Rostock Tel.: +49 (0)381 498 3649 E-Mail: karsten.rothemund@etechnik.uni-rostock.de (PGP- and GnuPG-Key available on my HomePage: http://www-ae.e-technik.uni-rostock.de/home/karo/)
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