Fujitsu Laptop Issues

[Chris Miller]

On 1/31/07, O. Sinclair <o.sinclair at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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

Mine is an IBM X40 - the antennea is built into the screen.  I've
never had heat problems related with that.

> 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

Kopete will chew through the CPU if you're doing a lot of IMing.

> Am using Kubuntu 6.10 w kde 3.5.6

Kubuntu 6.10 w KDE 3.5.5

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