Try filing a bug report on bugzilla.kernel.org, check out acpi.sf.net to find out what the bug report should entail. Len and friends are squashing a lot of laptop bugs, related to ACPI.
On Fri, 23 Jan 2004, Anders [iso-8859-1] Ellenshøj Andersen wrote: > On Friday 23 January 2004 01:55, Russell Coker wrote: > > > How do you then explain that without APM or ACPI, the fans do not start > > > up leaving the system frozen after even small amounts of CPU load? > > > > Your laptop is broken and will never work with DOS, memtest86, etc. > > Good point. I never actually tried running the kernel without either APM or > ACPI. It was always wither either the one or the other. It is possible that > using APM, the BIOS was really just controlling the fans independently from > the OS. Whenever I replaced APM with ACPI the OS would be unusable after a > few minuttes because the fans would not start up, but of course this could > just as easily have ACPI that was broken. > > Without any power management, the system wouldn't shut down using the poweroff > command, so you have to manually shut it off. This is such a big annoyance > that I never tried it without APM. > > So that's no reason not to buy an ASUS A1300. However if you really want a > reason not to buy it, I would say the weak power plug on the back of the > laptop. It has a tendency to wear so that it goes loose from the board. With > the loose connection the laptop won't charge the battery, and when the > battery runs dry.. > > This is a 150 euro repair job I could live without (it's the second time it > has gone loose). Right now as a temporary fix I have placed a piece of folded > up kitchen towel between the AC adaptor plug and the network plug. This > squeezes the power plug so it just makes the connection, as long as I don't > move the laptop around. > > Anders > > -- > This email was generated using KMail from KDE 3.1.5 on Debian GNU/Linux > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
