From: "Alex Howells" <astinus@gentoo.org>
To: gentoo-laptop@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-laptop] Gentoo on Samsung Q45
Date: Tue, 16 Oct 2007 20:38:01 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <a4020f860710161238i6d440f95t9cc5da597594cb20@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <d257c3560710161148l2432f117k78ae0d37913029b4@mail.gmail.com>
On 16/10/2007, Beso <givemesugarr@gmail.com> wrote:
> the components inside seems very good and are well supported. the wlan works
> very good if it is from intel (it has opensource drivers and documentation
> so it works good). you may experience some problems with processor acpi.
> there's in this list a discussion of mine with another member about his
> acpi/processor problems with a core2duo t77.
Things tend to improve with each kernel version though...
> the acpi from acer usually is not very good, so yours might work well
> without problems. i think that it's best for you to try some new livecd and
> see what it gets into /proc/acpi/thermal/xxxx/trip_points
> and /proc/acpi/thermal/xxxx/temperature files. if you're
> able to read temperature and you do have the trip points (ie, the cat on the
> temperature file gives you a degree and if your trip points show you
> active[0], active[1], passive and critical temperatures in degrees) then you
> won't have any problem with the processor driver. control also the
> /proc/acpi/fan/ directories to see if acpi recognizes the fan(s) in your pc.
> if all this things work then your notebook should run out of the box very
> well.
Typically speaking the LiveCD lags several versions behind the latest
kernel.org kernel so it's not a 100% indicator whether things will
work.
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2007-10-16 15:06 [gentoo-laptop] Gentoo on Samsung Q45 Zimmerling, Alexander
2007-10-16 18:48 ` Beso
2007-10-16 19:38 ` Alex Howells [this message]
2007-10-16 20:02 ` Beso
2007-10-16 20:12 ` Alex Howells
2007-10-17 7:38 ` AW: " Zimmerling, Alexander
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