Re: Powerbook produces a lot more heat after kernel upgrade

2004-11-30 Thread Pau Rul·lan Ferragut
On Tuesday 30 November 2004 15:54, Rogério Brito wrote: > On Nov 30 2004, Richard Hult wrote: > Also, which one integrates better with laptop-mode? I'm thinking of using > laptop-mode even for my i386 Desktop (since I can't stand the noise of its > HD). Umm... perhaps it is a long shot, but I wou

Re: Powerbook produces a lot more heat after kernel upgrade

2004-11-30 Thread Rogério Brito
On Nov 30 2004, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > This is likely to shorten the life of your old HD enough that the noise > won't be an issue for too long. > > Spin-up and spin-down cycles on old equipment is *never* a good idea. Yes, I know about this issue. I think that getting some more RAM

Re: Powerbook produces a lot more heat after kernel upgrade

2004-11-30 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Tue, 30 Nov 2004, Rogério Brito wrote: > laptop-mode even for my i386 Desktop (since I can't stand the noise of its > HD). This is likely to shorten the life of your old HD enough that the noise won't be an issue for too long. Spin-up and spin-down cycles on old equipment is *never* a good ide

Re: Powerbook produces a lot more heat after kernel upgrade

2004-11-30 Thread Rogério Brito
On Nov 30 2004, Richard Hult wrote: > This is without running any frequency scaling at all (no powernod, > cpydyn, or cpufreqd), and also without spinning down the hard drive. Would anybody provide a short description of which one of these frequency scaling packages (powernowd, cpudyn, cpufreqd)