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Beso, |
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yes i'm always staying in powersave mode...... but in any case the |
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CPU temperature tends to increase. I hope that the ACPI guys will work |
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on this (hoping i'm not the only one experiencing these problems). The |
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fans unfortunately are masked to the user in most Acer laptops, and |
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they are controlled fully by ACPI. |
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Thanks again, |
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m |
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On 10/13/07, Beso <givemesugarr@×××××.com> wrote: |
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> i think that you'll have to wait a little more and always stay aware when |
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> using the pc till acpi supports it. |
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> i'd recommend to stay on powersave when using the processor extensively so |
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> that you'd not incur in hardware errors and failures. and it the fan is not |
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> starting try to modify it by command prompt via echo "on" > |
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> /proc/acpi/fan/.. |
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> this will work at least the thermal doesn't reach the state when it would |
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> stop the fan, but since you don't have that point and that you cannot read |
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> temperature starting it via echo "on" should always stay on. you'd have some |
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> noise maybe, but you'd be sure that the processor would not run overheat. |
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> and hope that the acpi people would fix that in the near future. |
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> i'm sorry for not being able to help you more. |
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> and as an advice for the future: before getting a notebook in the future |
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> have some surf on the web to see if it's fully supported by linux (acer |
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> sells linux only notebooks actually but only from taiwan). i had my linux |
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> notebook not working with linux for 5-6 months and yet i had to change the |
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> wireless since it wasn't supported after almost 2 years. for what i know |
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> dell, hp and compaq are quite well supported. |
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