Re: [gentoo-user] Re: My laptop is freaking me out.

[Ian K <omega_2_1@yahoo.ca>]

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Richard Fish wrote:

>Ian K wrote:
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>>Heres the bad news.. I turned my laptop on today, and the fans didn't
>>come on like
>>they did before, and within five minutes and 1 compile, the laptop was off.
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>Ok, so you defintely have some kind of problem with your fans.  Did you
>follow the cleaning instructions that others provided?  Maybe they are
>just too gummed up to spin up reliably?
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The strange thing is though, they do work fine under Windows.
Im just Guessing that Linux cant activate them.

>Also, does anyone else here have the same model laptop that can confirm
>that the ACPI stuff looks right??  I mean, not even a thermal sensor??
>That seems weird!
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>Some of the other things that I have read or can think of that might
>effect the fans would be:
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>1. In dual boot system with Windows, warm or cold restarts from Windows
>to Linux can affect whether the fans spin up.
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What would you recommend along those lines?

>2. Firmware (BIOS) updates.  (See Sager 9880 and 9860 and "stuck fans"!!)
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I tried that, the BIOS came updated to the most recent version.
I should point out its a Phoenix BIOS too, so the toshiba-utils does
not work on my system.

>3. Whether you are running on AC or battery.
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Always AC, I never run off of a battery if I can help it.

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>>I get:
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>>CONFIG_ACPI=y
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>Looks sane to me....
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>>Jul 12 16:45:03 Avalon ACPI: AC Adapter [ACAD] (off-line)
>>Jul 12 16:45:03 Avalon ACPI: Battery Slot [BAT1] (battery present)
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>Do you get better results if you start with the AC power connected? 
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The strange thing is, it was connected. That was a detection error
in th log.

>What if you do a truly cold restart? (remove the battery, unplug then
>connect the AC, and then power up).
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I will try that.

On the topic of ACPI, I found this post on LinuxQuestions. I post as omega21
there. The thread is in the SuSe Forum, but I doubt it matters too much.
What do you make of it?

http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/showthread.php?s=&threadid=288588

As well, someone else on LQ advised trying APM, instead of ACPI(?). Im not
sure if its a good idea or not.

Lastly, I found another project that packs Toshiba features into the kernel.
Im not sure if I should try it though.

http://sourceforge.net/projects/omke/

Cheers,
Ian

PS>> I hope we can solve this. I forgot how icky Windows XP is. ;)

>-Richard
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