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On 16/10/2007, Beso <givemesugarr@×××××.com> wrote: |
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> the components inside seems very good and are well supported. the wlan works |
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> very good if it is from intel (it has opensource drivers and documentation |
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> so it works good). you may experience some problems with processor acpi. |
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> there's in this list a discussion of mine with another member about his |
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> acpi/processor problems with a core2duo t77. |
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Things tend to improve with each kernel version though... |
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> the acpi from acer usually is not very good, so yours might work well |
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> without problems. i think that it's best for you to try some new livecd and |
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> see what it gets into /proc/acpi/thermal/xxxx/trip_points |
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> and /proc/acpi/thermal/xxxx/temperature files. if you're |
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> able to read temperature and you do have the trip points (ie, the cat on the |
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> temperature file gives you a degree and if your trip points show you |
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> active[0], active[1], passive and critical temperatures in degrees) then you |
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> won't have any problem with the processor driver. control also the |
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> /proc/acpi/fan/ directories to see if acpi recognizes the fan(s) in your pc. |
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> if all this things work then your notebook should run out of the box very |
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> well. |
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Typically speaking the LiveCD lags several versions behind the latest |
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kernel.org kernel so it's not a 100% indicator whether things will |
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work. |
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