Re: [gentoo-amd64] new laptop

[Beso <givemesugarr@gmail.com>]

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2008/2/3, ionut cucu <cuciferus@gmail.com>:
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> On Sun, 3 Feb 2008 13:55:56 +0000
> Beso <givemesugarr@gmail.com> wrote:
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> > 2008/2/3, ionut cucu <cuciferus@gmail.com>:
> > >
> > > Hi List,
> > > I've just bought a new laptop Acer 5715Z and I've have the following
> > > issue the processor overheats until the laptop closes(100 degrees
> > > Celsius). This happened when I had two parallel emerges. So I went
> > > to the shop and changed it with another one, same model. This one
> > > can hold up to 3 parallel emerges but it overheats when I'm
> > > watching a movie, again it reaches the 100 degrees limit. I'm I
> > > doing something wrong here? I'm I missing something (this is the
> > > first laptop I have) ?. Or just by coincidence this one is broken
> > > too. I've looked on the Internet but I hadn't found any similar
> > > issues. Thanks! --
> > > gentoo-amd64@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
> > >
> > > first: maybe the thermal isn't set right.
> > what does cat /proc/acpi/thermal_zone/THRM/trip_points says?! mine is
> > something like this:
> >
> > critical (S5):           105 C
> > passive:                 76 C: tc1=3 tc2=1 tsp=150 devices=CPU0
> > active[0]:               67 C: devices= FN1
> > active[1]:               57 C: devices= FN2
> >
> > you might have different values but at least you should have one
> > active and one passive.
> I have only the critical level set
> > second: don't do parallel emerge if you're not sure that the packages
> > from one emerge don't collide with the ones from the other. for
> > example, knetworkmanager needs networkmanager which needs dhcdb which
> > needs dhclient. if you emerge something that would emerge dhclient
> > then you'd emerge 2 times dhclient or you might risk one of the 2
> > emerges to fail because a dep hasn't yet been installed. you could
> > push up the number of processes to be build together by increasing
> > the makeopts for example to -j6 or more. increase the number and see
> > your processors loads. the best number is the one that puts your
> > processors to about 80% of cpu so that you'd still have 20% of cpu
> > power to do other things. also add the niceness option so that you
> > don't see slowdowns when you compile and use some other program.
> Well the parallel emerges are done just to load the cpu, after the main
> installation process, but thanks for the j6 idea
> > third: have you installed acpi and acer-acpi?! i presume that you've
> > done it and you're starting both acpi and acer-acpi at boot. anyway,
> > the important thing is are the trip_points. if you don't have them
> > then you might need to make a script to get the thermal temperature
> > and to slowdown manually the processor when it pushes too much up the
> > temperature.
> acer_acpi refuses to compile with some file missing error...will
> search the bugs later, but is it really necessary? if so could you
> please elaborate a little because I was under the impression that the
> fans were hardware controlled by default
> --
> gentoo-amd64@lists.gentoo.org mailing list


acer-acpi is usually necessary for acer notebooks to work well. it is
mandatory for hotkeys and other stuff and is necessary to correct some
acer's modifications in the acpi. so for what i know acer-acpi is manadatory
for acer notebooks as it is asus-acpi on asus notebooks. try to see if
everything fixes after you install it (try unmasking newer versions if you
cannot install stable ones).
the fans are ususally board controlled as it is the passive mode that
reduces the cpu speed, but they can be forced via scripts.




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dott. ing. beso

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