[tlinux-users:07820] Re: When the fedora installs checks the DVD too, the laptop power down

depending on your BIOS, you will need to use ACPI, or APM (I think
fnfx works with APM). Try installing fnfx first, since it is easier.
You can also try booting from the latest knoppix cd which has good
acpi support and see the /proc/acpi there. If it works with knoppix
then you need to recompile your kernel with acpi support (look for
howto's about ACPI).

--Vassilis

On 5/18/06, Howard Coles Jr. <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Wednesday 10 May 2006 9:23 am, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote:
> > Vassilis Koutavas wrote:
> > > Seems like overheating of the cpu to me. When you boot linux, can you
> > > tell if the cpu fan is ever on? Probably your linux never turns it on
> > > and your cpu is being overheated when you do some demanding task. Try
> > > compiling some source distribution to see if it happens then. If
> > > indeed it is cou overheating, then I suggest to find out soon how to
> > > make your cpu fan work in linux, otherwise you may fry your processor,
> > > like you probably did with your previous laptop!
> > >
> > > --Vassilis
> >
> > You can probably check the fan by looking at
> > /proc/acpi/fan/FAN0/state. You may be able to control the fan with
> > fnfx. There is also a fan program in Toshiba Utilities that may
> > work. I don't know if your laptop have the Toshiba BIOS, or the
> > Pheonix BIOS. They do not work with the Pheonix BIOS. (I have an
> > A105-S4004, and tey do not work on it. The fan is not BIOS controlled.)
> >
> > Mikkel
> This is good information, but I don't have anything at all
> under /proc/acpi/fan.
>
> Are there any howtos or help files I could turn to that would help me fix
> this.  This Toshiba is the FIRST and only machine I've ever had that has this
> problem.  After two other laptops I can't imagine why Toshiba would be this
> out of whack.
>
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