You are right this is what windows do, Linux doesn't seems to start up properly the fan using ACPI. The laptop start heating up, so there is probably a bug around that point no ? Jm Selon Pedro Fernandes Macedo <webmaster@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>: > Gene Heskett wrote: > > >On Thursday 03 June 2004 22:13, vejmarie@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote: > > > > > >>You are right this is a laptop drive I can't really help him to get > >>cooler except leaving florida ! > >>Basically what I do have observed as well is that with standard > >>kernel from FC2, I do not have this issue which is basically coming > >>from the fact that the processor is locked to running at 800 Mhz ( > >>my BIOS do not support PST structure required by the standard > >>powernow-k8 kernel module ). I do have had to patch the kernel to > >>allow the processor running at 1.8 Ghz, and the hard drive issue > >>appears only in that case. > >> > >> > >> > >Aha! So thats where the heat is coming from. I'd imagine you have > >doubled the power input, and the heat output of the cpu, and I'm > >wondering how long it itself will survive, not to mention the power > >regulation circuitry for the cpu with its at least doubled current > >drain. > > > >Heat management in a laptop is probably the highest paid engineering > >job at the laptop makers R&D shop, and much of that stuff is designed > >right down to the gnats eyebrow for cooling. I think in the > >interests of decent life for both the laptop and its battery, I'd put > >it back to the factory speed. The laptop is too valuable to cook > >trying to make up some bragging rights, do that to a $300 dollar > >Wallmart box instead. > > > > > > > To me , it looks like he is using the factory speed. These CPUs run > usually at 800Mhz to save power when using battery power and 1800Mhz > otherwise. > What he has done is simply enabling something that should just work , > but with the kernel rpm didnt... I bet if he boots to the other OS (if > he has it) , it'll be using the same speeds (800Mhz with battery power , > 1800Mhz otherwise). > > -- > Pedro Macedo > > > -- > fedora-list mailing list > fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx > To unsubscribe: http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list >
