Ian K wrote: >> >> Some of the other things that I have read or can think of that might >> effect the fans would be: >> >> 1. In dual boot system with Windows, warm or cold restarts from Windows >> to Linux can affect whether the fans spin up. >> >> > What would you recommend along those lines?
Why, my Standard Operating Procedure of course! (Start) | [ Try Something ] | < Problem Fixed? > <----- / \ | Y N | / \ | (Quit) [Try Something Else] ;-> Seriously, I've seen posts that: 1. Booting into Windows and letting it run for a while, then warm-rebooting into linux, lets the fans work. 2. or also, that #1 makes things worse in Linux; That things work best with a cold boot into Linux. > > On the topic of ACPI, I found this post on LinuxQuestions. I post as > omega21 > there. The thread is in the SuSe Forum, but I doubt it matters too much. > What do you make of it? > > http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/showthread.php?s=&threadid=288588 > Looks like the A65 and A70 laptops have serious problems with fan control, reboots, and static discharge issues....as far as what I make of it...well, maybe the problem with my Sager 5680 of cracking plastic around the hinges of that requires me to continually repair/glue the thing together isn't such a bad problem after all! (Sorry, I couldn't resist) > As well, someone else on LQ advised trying APM, instead of ACPI(?). Im not > sure if its a good idea or not. > I say go for it. ACPI isn't doing much for you....doesn't even know the difference between battery power and AC! You will probably want to configure your kernel with both APM and ACPI support, then you can switch between them by adding the appropriate "apm=off" or "acpi=off" entries to the kernel command line. > Lastly, I found another project that packs Toshiba features into the > kernel. > Im not sure if I should try it though. > > http://sourceforge.net/projects/omke/ > Project seems nearly dead. Only 5 posts (including yours) between the two forums this year. And the last release of anything was in Februrary, which doesn't list anything but an updated Makefile and a change to some documentation as features.... -Richard -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list