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From: Marco Calviani <marco.calviani@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-laptop@l.g.o
Cc: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-laptop] Re: [gentoo-user] Problem with CPU temperature (Santa Rosa CPU)
Date: Tue, 16 Oct 2007 20:08:55
Message-Id: da5cd1900710161256u1b5b81d1kf87ae329694b90e8@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-laptop] Re: [gentoo-user] Problem with CPU temperature (Santa Rosa CPU) by Marco Calviani
1 Hi,
2 just for information, i report that i've filed a bug on bugzilla:
3
4 http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=9167
5
6 regards,
7 m
8
9 On 10/13/07, Marco Calviani <marco.calviani@×××××.com> wrote:
10 > Beso,
11 > yes i'm always staying in powersave mode...... but in any case the
12 > CPU temperature tends to increase. I hope that the ACPI guys will work
13 > on this (hoping i'm not the only one experiencing these problems). The
14 > fans unfortunately are masked to the user in most Acer laptops, and
15 > they are controlled fully by ACPI.
16 >
17 > Thanks again,
18 > m
19 >
20 > On 10/13/07, Beso <givemesugarr@×××××.com> wrote:
21 > > i think that you'll have to wait a little more and always stay aware when
22 > > using the pc till acpi supports it.
23 > > i'd recommend to stay on powersave when using the processor extensively so
24 > > that you'd not incur in hardware errors and failures. and it the fan is not
25 > > starting try to modify it by command prompt via echo "on" >
26 > > /proc/acpi/fan/..
27 > > this will work at least the thermal doesn't reach the state when it would
28 > > stop the fan, but since you don't have that point and that you cannot read
29 > > temperature starting it via echo "on" should always stay on. you'd have some
30 > > noise maybe, but you'd be sure that the processor would not run overheat.
31 > > and hope that the acpi people would fix that in the near future.
32 > > i'm sorry for not being able to help you more.
33 > > and as an advice for the future: before getting a notebook in the future
34 > > have some surf on the web to see if it's fully supported by linux (acer
35 > > sells linux only notebooks actually but only from taiwan). i had my linux
36 > > notebook not working with linux for 5-6 months and yet i had to change the
37 > > wireless since it wasn't supported after almost 2 years. for what i know
38 > > dell, hp and compaq are quite well supported.
39 > >
40 >
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