Re: Powerbook produces a lot more heat after kernel upgrade

2004-11-30 Thread Richard Hult
Timo Reimerdes wrote: Could is be something related to hard-drive activity? Or is the processor just doing more work? did the powernowd change? This is without running any frequency scaling at all (no powernod, cpydyn, or cpufreqd), and also without spinning down the hard drive. It's a bit of

Re: Powerbook produces a lot more heat after kernel upgrade

2004-11-29 Thread Richard Hult
Colin Leroy wrote: On 26 Nov 2004 at 12h11, Timo Reimerdes wrote: Hi, Hm... I havent researched it but I said to a friend of mine about 15 minutes ago "somehow the temperature management seems to get worse". *g* In other words - I had the same feeling. (Running Ubuntu 2.6.8.1 now - preparin

Re: TEST: Sleep patch #5

2004-11-28 Thread Richard Hult
Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: Ok, here's the 5th version of the sleep patch for ATI based albooks & iBook G4. Other machine users, please test too as it may cause regressions (or improvements) as well. This seems to be working pretty well, thanks! One slight problem is that there is some flick

Re: Powerbook produces a lot more heat after kernel upgrade

2004-11-13 Thread Richard Hult
Hi, Today I compiled the 2.6.9 stock kernel + Ben's suspend patch. However I am experiencing a lot of extra heet production as opposed to the 2.6.8.1 kernel. I have locked my cpu at the lowest frequency (it is fast enough), and with the 2.6.8.1 the fan was almost always off except with excessive