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---------- Forwarded Message from Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. <"Boyd Stephen Smith |
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Jr." <bss03@××××××××××.com>>: ---------- |
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Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Wich kernel to use for a laptop. |
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Date: Sunday 21 November 2004 12:20 am |
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From: "Boyd Stephen Smith Jr." <bss03@××××××××××.com> |
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To: gentoo-user@l.g.o |
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On Saturday 20 November 2004 10:43 pm, Random <Random <cja2@××××××.es>> wrote: |
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> My question is: is there a kernel patchset designed for laptop users, or |
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> is there one that works specially fine with them? |
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Ever since I installed gentoo on my laptop I've been running |
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gentoo-dev-sources, without any additional patches. I did try out |
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mm-sources, so I could get reiser4 support, but resizing reiser4 filesystems |
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is not implemented (at ALL) which is a game breaker for me. [I use LVM to |
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only grow my filesystems as they need it.] |
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> Please answer, if you use gentoo with a laptop tell me about your |
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> experiences. |
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I did, and I guess still do, have issues with my laptop overheating because |
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gentoo/linux wasn't smart enough to automatically drop the voltage/speed of |
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my processor. [During initial emerging I would routinely used Ctrl-Z to |
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suspend the emerge and the the procesor cool off.] |
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Part of the problem could be my gateway laptop. Gateway is known for writing |
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the bios-level ACPI information in a format that only MS compilers/kernels |
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will understand. With the right kernel options, I was about to manually |
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monitor my heat and manually change the speed/voltage of the processor |
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via /proc/acpi. |
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Rather than fix my BIOS and/or install more sophisticated tools, I wrote a |
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little bash script to check my heat every few seconds and adjust the |
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processor. I added it to /etc/conf.d/local.st* and am still using it, months |
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later. |
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Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. <bss03@××××××××××.com> |
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