Fujitsu Laptop Issues

[H.J.Bathoorn]

On Tue, 30 Jan 2007 17:45:08 -0800
Chris wrote:

> 
> BIOS has nothing to do with it either.  BIOS controls virtually no
> run-time behavior whatsoever beyond booting.  It's all software.

Well, I have an option to set the CPU in the bios to high, low or auto to extend battery life.
If I set it to high performance it will double fault almost immediately at boot.
Set at low performance it double faults just after ACPI chips in. It mentions setting the thermal zone and then halts 6 out of 10.
The 2.4 kernel (slackware11) hasn't faulted yet so next step'll be enabling acpi as like your XP, it gets awful hot.

> Speedstepping is extremely good if your processor supports it.

I almost have the impression it doesn't, any more. All the heat certainly doesn't extend it's life span.

> It can
> save a load of power and reduce heat by a appreciable amount.  When my
> laptop ran Windows XP (without throttling) it was running so hot I
> could have fried an egg on the underside of my laptop.  I switched to
> Linux, which had CPU throttling.  It runs at room temperature unless
> I'm running something CPU intensive at the time (read: I'm a
> programmer, so CPU intensive usually constitutes finding the nth digit
> of pi or the first ten digit prime number found in e.)

This is my teenage daughters laptop. Doesn't do that much, though I have noticed that "amsn" (and kopete) when in use rocket cpu usage up to 90% or more. That's when the thing really gets hot, including the wireless pcmcia card. 


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Good luck,
HarM.