Re: i8kuitls bug makes impossible use of F14 on Dell Latitude D820

2010-11-16 Thread Darr
On Monday, 15 November, 2010 @04:16 zulu, Juan R. de Silva scribed: > With i8krellm I always kept the CPU temperature below 48 degrees C. > True - fans run a lot. But again, fan is a cheap part. I could never get the i8k plugin for GKrellem to work... seemed like it was looking for its files in

Re: i8kuitls bug makes impossible use of F14 on Dell Latitude D820

2010-11-15 Thread Alan Cox
> Isn't it weird that 2 of the mainstream distros left on cold quite a > large number of Dell laptop users. It seems to be a kernel bug (or a compiler bug - the handbags are still flying on that ;)). If this is the bug I think then Andi Kleen posted a fix to the kernel list today so it should get

Re: i8kuitls bug makes impossible use of F14 on Dell Latitude D820

2010-11-14 Thread Ed Greshko
On 11/15/2010 12:02 PM, Juan R. de Silva wrote: > Well, it all depends of a point of view. Yes, it is possible to work, if > I would agree to slowly cook my old "Latitude D820" friend. My comment was based on your saying "runs fans at full speed continually" which I wouldn't think results in coo

Re: i8kuitls bug makes impossible use of F14 on Dell Latitude D820

2010-11-14 Thread Juan R. de Silva
On Sun, 14 Nov 2010 20:20:30 -0700, Kevin Fenzi wrote: > On Mon, 15 Nov 2010 01:38:36 + (UTC) "Juan R. de Silva" > wrote: > >> I used i8krllm plugin on F11 and F12 to manage cooling fans on my >> laptop. However, after upgrade to F14 I found the plugin not >> functioning correctly in Auto mo

Re: i8kuitls bug makes impossible use of F14 on Dell Latitude D820

2010-11-14 Thread Juan R. de Silva
On Mon, 15 Nov 2010 11:11:38 +0800, Ed Greshko wrote: >> I used i8krllm plugin on F11 and F12 to manage cooling fans on my >> laptop. However, after upgrade to F14 I found the plugin not >> functioning correctly in Auto mode. It does not respect any temperature >> settings anymore. Instead it runs

Re: i8kuitls bug makes impossible use of F14 on Dell Latitude D820

2010-11-14 Thread Kevin Fenzi
On Mon, 15 Nov 2010 01:38:36 + (UTC) "Juan R. de Silva" wrote: > I used i8krllm plugin on F11 and F12 to manage cooling fans on my > laptop. However, after upgrade to F14 I found the plugin not > functioning correctly in Auto mode. It does not respect any > temperature settings anymore. Inste

Re: i8kuitls bug makes impossible use of F14 on Dell Latitude D820

2010-11-14 Thread Ed Greshko
> I used i8krllm plugin on F11 and F12 to manage cooling fans on my laptop. > However, after upgrade to F14 I found the plugin not functioning > correctly in Auto mode. It does not respect any temperature settings > anymore. Instead it runs fans at full speed continually and leaves as the > onl

i8kuitls bug makes impossible use of F14 on Dell Latitude D820

2010-11-14 Thread Juan R. de Silva
I used i8krllm plugin on F11 and F12 to manage cooling fans on my laptop. However, after upgrade to F14 I found the plugin not functioning correctly in Auto mode. It does not respect any temperature settings anymore. Instead it runs fans at full speed continually and leaves as the only option M