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 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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. > > > -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
