On Sun, Dec 24, 2006 at 03:07:55AM +0100, Frederik Schueler wrote: > > Hi *, > > this is indeed a severe issue which requires all our attention and care > to solve or circumvent in order for nobodies boxes to get any harm, you > know how expensive these laptops are. > > I basically see 3 solutions/workarounds: > > 1. the brutal one: deactivate ACPI in 2.6.18, have the bios keep control > of the fans - better a noisy laptop until I upgrade the kernel than a > fried box.
Do you intent to disable ACPI entirely for all systems? It appears to me that the affected HP models could be disabled on a per-case basis using drivers/acpi/blacklist.c Cheers, Moritz -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]