Fujitsu Laptop Issues

[Chris Miller]

On 1/30/07, H.J.Bathoorn <triade-lists at zeelandnet.nl> wrote:
> On Mon, 29 Jan 2007 02:55:32 +0100
> H.J.Bathoorn wrote:
> > I'd say "hot" when it just shuts down or crashes.
> > The thing just isn't usable and more than often wont even boot.
> >
> > Been running with 2.4 kernel (slackware 11) for more than 4 hours now without more than 40 degr.
>
> Thought I keep ya'll posted here.
>
> I discovered that ACPI is the culprit ---- in combination with a dying CPU.
>
> Whether it's ACPI that killed the CPU or not isn't clear but it will only boot in "battery mode" now.
> The 2.6 kernel is just too heavy a load (with or without ACPI) for the P3.

I highly doubt it's the kernel.  The kernel itself only runs about 20
MB in memory, so I think it's the ACPI helper applications which
extend the kernel functionality.

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