[tlinux-users:07821] Re: When the fedora installs checks the DVD too, the laptop power down
"Christopher R. Hertel" <[email protected]>
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Dunno if this is at all helpful but on the Toshiba system I've got the fan information is in: /proc/acpi/toshiba/fan It might be worth poking around a bit... Chris -)----- Vassilis Koutavas wrote: > 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. >> >> -- >> See Ya' >> Howard Coles Jr. >> John 3:16! >> >> http://risenbooks.com Christian bookstore >> >> > > -- "Implementing CIFS - the Common Internet FileSystem" ISBN: 013047116X Samba Team -- http://www.samba.org/ -)----- Christopher R. Hertel jCIFS Team -- http://jcifs.samba.org/ -)----- ubiqx development, uninq. ubiqx Team -- http://www.ubiqx.org/ -)----- [email protected] OnLineBook -- http://ubiqx.org/cifs/ -)----- [email protected]