Hello
I've been reading for a while but this is my first post. I try to use Debian exclusively and have been experimenting with Linux for about 3 years.
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. I have been looking at the cpufreq project but I can't find much documentation or any updates on its progress. Does anyone know anything about the progress of this project or has anyone any experience with these configurations? A while ago I read about manually changing the clock speed but I haven't been able to find anything since.
Thanks,
Louise
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/
The boot param is :-
linux noapm
This can also be added to the lilo.conf as :-
append="noapm"
Regards, Paul.
On Friday 18 July 2003 1:08 am, Wayne Stallwood wrote:
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.
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