El Mié 21 Ago 2002 15:36, Alessandro Speranza escribió: > On Wed, 21 Aug 2002, Karl E. Jorgensen wrote: > > On Wed, Aug 21, 2002 at 01:57:18PM +0100, Alessandro Speranza wrote: > > [snip] > > > > > I can't keep mine [laptop, ed] on for too long, despite having all the > > > latest acpi patches on a self-compiled 2.4.18 kernel. The CPU > > > temperature, I think, is what causes mine to crash if I keep it on for > > > too long (even throttling when I take a cigarette break) > > > > Sounds like your fan(s) aren't working hard enough. If it's a Dell, then > > the i8kutils package might help you keep the temperature down. > > It's a compaq presario 700, and as far as I know the most of the one who > have it had problems similar to mine. It is much better than at the > beginning now, but still...
I think you'll find interesnting the following links: http://www.pps.jussieu.fr/~jch/software/presario/ (the Power Management section in order to make ACPI work) http://cip.uni-trier.de/nofftz/linux/Athlon-Powersaving-HOWTO.html (really good) Regards. -- Juan Manuel García Molina [EMAIL PROTECTED]
