Fujitsu Laptop Issues

[O. Sinclair]

H.J.Bathoorn wrote:
> 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. 
> 
> 

I am not techie enough for this discussion but what I notice on my own 
laptop is that "the wireless area" (built-in in my Dell) gets 
uncomfortably hot, no matter what settings I choose. Have you used this 
lapotp w/o the wireless and checked how it behaves?
And I have never noticed Kopete eating cpu - kmail does now and then but 
not Kopetee

Am using Kubuntu 6.10 w kde 3.5.6

Sinclair