From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Ihsnd-0002aa-H1 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 16 Oct 2007 20:13:57 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.1/8.14.0) with SMTP id l9GK22ZK032416; Tue, 16 Oct 2007 20:02:02 GMT Received: from rn-out-0102.google.com (rn-out-0910.google.com [64.233.170.187]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.1/8.14.0) with ESMTP id l9GJuJ8P022928 for ; Tue, 16 Oct 2007 19:56:19 GMT Received: by rn-out-0102.google.com with SMTP id e24so194496rng for ; Tue, 16 Oct 2007 12:56:19 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; bh=OTL0pNlwWzmh1RUv4n+4fgYr6/oji4eQF+AGZht0+H0=; b=V2Qc+f5vo1yj3OZ2/nLAvn6jRVdkItYefhGwArQAhxgTaEoulZ+XfMoJvKTj6BosRYU5RopnTGfNNsqmI13WINRFaQBrO8okZUFTZpXGVcoyeWPt4S47M6jyGij1V3u9x0LJMpFUViM2pfibY2fl7sM8ILSyIXnGe8KHku0DfLA= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=MM76sGx51J5B0Pstgb6FZ2lENGJKv1cY2KgHIPmxPHdaeggWz3OPOkPteJEmRkGptUIM3UpYCC2opFoLgEx4ZNSUFnrlDFLa9Mvchhh1FVg6O7C4j5MWIKsFAcSDpDPAyoK0PBK27WodAnBnm9K9h6Lf0dusn0E4iO/NeujAHBg= Received: by 10.142.226.2 with SMTP id y2mr2318040wfg.1192564577957; Tue, 16 Oct 2007 12:56:17 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.142.100.17 with HTTP; Tue, 16 Oct 2007 12:56:17 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: Date: Tue, 16 Oct 2007 21:56:17 +0200 From: "Marco Calviani" To: gentoo-laptop@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-laptop] Re: [gentoo-user] Problem with CPU temperature (Santa Rosa CPU) Cc: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org In-Reply-To: Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: X-Archives-Salt: e149422f-50e0-447f-96d3-87d90eac918f X-Archives-Hash: 89663a148d0cf17e2d0e15e3dc06f2c9 Hi, just for information, i report that i've filed a bug on bugzilla: http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=9167 regards, m On 10/13/07, Marco Calviani wrote: > Beso, > yes i'm always staying in powersave mode...... but in any case the > CPU temperature tends to increase. I hope that the ACPI guys will work > on this (hoping i'm not the only one experiencing these problems). The > fans unfortunately are masked to the user in most Acer laptops, and > they are controlled fully by ACPI. > > Thanks again, > m > > On 10/13/07, Beso wrote: > > i think that you'll have to wait a little more and always stay aware when > > using the pc till acpi supports it. > > i'd recommend to stay on powersave when using the processor extensively so > > that you'd not incur in hardware errors and failures. and it the fan is not > > starting try to modify it by command prompt via echo "on" > > > /proc/acpi/fan/.. > > this will work at least the thermal doesn't reach the state when it would > > stop the fan, but since you don't have that point and that you cannot read > > temperature starting it via echo "on" should always stay on. you'd have some > > noise maybe, but you'd be sure that the processor would not run overheat. > > and hope that the acpi people would fix that in the near future. > > i'm sorry for not being able to help you more. > > and as an advice for the future: before getting a notebook in the future > > have some surf on the web to see if it's fully supported by linux (acer > > sells linux only notebooks actually but only from taiwan). i had my linux > > notebook not working with linux for 5-6 months and yet i had to change the > > wireless since it wasn't supported after almost 2 years. for what i know > > dell, hp and compaq are quite well supported. > > > -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list