[gentoo-user] livecd and install cd improper ACPI?

[gentoo-user] livecd and install cd improper ACPI?

[Trenton Adams]

Hi guys,

I have a notebook that I use with gentoo.  I'm trying to create a
tar.gz backup of the entire thing.  So, I boot up with 2005.x or
2006.0 livecd, or install cd.  Both of them allow the system to over
heat, and it shuts down.  This never used to happen.  I believe it
worked fine with 2004.x.  Have some ACPI drivers been disabled since
2004?

Gentoo itself seems to work just fine, even with default kernel, or
should I say default in regards to ACPI stuff.  So why something would
be disabled in the kernel just for that, I don't know.

I don't want to have to switch to RedHat for that system, that would suck.
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Re: [gentoo-user] livecd and install cd improper ACPI?

[Richard Fish]

On 7/29/06, Trenton Adams <trenton.d.adams@gmail.com> wrote:
> I have a notebook that I use with gentoo.  I'm trying to create a
> tar.gz backup of the entire thing.  So, I boot up with 2005.x or
> 2006.0 livecd, or install cd.  Both of them allow the system to over
> heat, and it shuts down.  This never used to happen.  I believe it
> worked fine with 2004.x.  Have some ACPI drivers been disabled since
> 2004?

No, but they may have been modularized.  Probably you just need to
"modprobe fan".

-Richard
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Re: [gentoo-user] livecd and install cd improper ACPI?

[Trenton Adams]

Thanks Richard.

Almost but not quite.  I loaded the fan module, which did nothing,
seeing the fan was already running.  I then searched through
/lib/modules/2.6.* for the fan module so I could find the others.
Then loaded the others.  Once I loaded the *thermal* module, the fan
slowed down.  It was stuck on one speed, which was apparently not fast
enough for what I was doing.  So, either a combination of the fan and
thermal modules did something, or just the thermal module.

Thanks again.

On 7/30/06, Richard Fish <bigfish@asmallpond.org> wrote:
> On 7/29/06, Trenton Adams <trenton.d.adams@gmail.com> wrote:
> > I have a notebook that I use with gentoo.  I'm trying to create a
> > tar.gz backup of the entire thing.  So, I boot up with 2005.x or
> > 2006.0 livecd, or install cd.  Both of them allow the system to over
> > heat, and it shuts down.  This never used to happen.  I believe it
> > worked fine with 2004.x.  Have some ACPI drivers been disabled since
> > 2004?
>
> No, but they may have been modularized.  Probably you just need to
> "modprobe fan".
>
> -Richard
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>
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