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linux itself dose not impliment ACPI the kernel only gives the |
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interface to use it so even after you have your hole system installed |
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it wont controle the ACPI by itself there are programs like acpid and |
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cpudyn that will do that for you |
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what happens is that some componys put the controling fetures of ACPI |
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directly in the BIOS and the BIOS controles the hole thing |
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On Mon, 22 Nov 2004 04:31:45 +0000, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. |
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<bss03@××××××××××.com> wrote: |
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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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> |
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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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> |
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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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> |
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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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> |
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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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> -- |
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> Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. <bss03@××××××××××.com> |
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