18 Jul
2003
18 Jul
'03
1:09 a.m.
On Thursday 17 July 2003 21:29, Louise J M Worthington wrote:
I have an Acer Aspire 1301XV laptop with a mobile Athlon XP 1500+. I have tried using Debian, but the CPU gets worryingly hot and the fan is constantly on.
Ahh I've had this one before. My Compaq suffered from this as well
For me installing ACPI modules into the kernel and disabling APM did the trick. You need to turn off APM by either not loading the APM module or passing the relevant parameter to the kernel at boot.
After that you should find that the fan isn't trying to make your laptop achieve take off, CPU should run at the normal temp and your battery life should improve dramatically.
Here is a useful How to that's geared towards Debian http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/ACPI-HOWTO/