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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: Sat, 13 Oct 2007 21:58:53
Message-Id: da5cd1900710131446h386a9e9byf927c92a462c4bb@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-laptop] Re: [gentoo-user] Problem with CPU temperature (Santa Rosa CPU) by Beso
1 Beso,
2 yes i'm always staying in powersave mode...... but in any case the
3 CPU temperature tends to increase. I hope that the ACPI guys will work
4 on this (hoping i'm not the only one experiencing these problems). The
5 fans unfortunately are masked to the user in most Acer laptops, and
6 they are controlled fully by ACPI.
7
8 Thanks again,
9 m
10
11 On 10/13/07, Beso <givemesugarr@×××××.com> wrote:
12 > i think that you'll have to wait a little more and always stay aware when
13 > using the pc till acpi supports it.
14 > i'd recommend to stay on powersave when using the processor extensively so
15 > that you'd not incur in hardware errors and failures. and it the fan is not
16 > starting try to modify it by command prompt via echo "on" >
17 > /proc/acpi/fan/..
18 > this will work at least the thermal doesn't reach the state when it would
19 > stop the fan, but since you don't have that point and that you cannot read
20 > temperature starting it via echo "on" should always stay on. you'd have some
21 > noise maybe, but you'd be sure that the processor would not run overheat.
22 > and hope that the acpi people would fix that in the near future.
23 > i'm sorry for not being able to help you more.
24 > and as an advice for the future: before getting a notebook in the future
25 > have some surf on the web to see if it's fully supported by linux (acer
26 > sells linux only notebooks actually but only from taiwan). i had my linux
27 > notebook not working with linux for 5-6 months and yet i had to change the
28 > wireless since it wasn't supported after almost 2 years. for what i know
29 > dell, hp and compaq are quite well supported.
30 >
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