[frgeek-michiana] Re: Warehouse Report - 7/27/2008
- From: "Tom Brown" <tbrown@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <frgeek-michiana@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 28 Jul 2008 15:01:46 -0400
I turned off acpi in vasm, added the following to lilo.conf, ran lilo and
rebooted. However, there is no improvement.
append = "acpi = off apm = on"
I suspect compiling in a better dsdt table might get the fan going -- it
seems to have worked for others. I won't have time to look at BIOS options
or the kernel config file (if there is one) until Tuesday at the warehouse.
Tom
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Subject: [frgeek-michiana] Re: Warehouse Report - 7/27/2008
I had the same issue with the N600c I'm using for kiosk development. At the
moment I haven't been running it since it gets so hot, for a while I had a
small cpu fan taped to the side, in addition the keyboard, mouse, and
display shutdown after a while requiring a hard reboot to get the system
back. I think it will work OK as a demo system but it is definitely a Linux
hostile system. From what I understand it was a pretty good Windows system.
On the plus side we could have the worlds first combination laptop/popcorn
popper.
More links:
http://icculus.org/~mongoose/Compaq-Evo_N600c.html
http://forums.slamd64.com/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=827
Haven't tried it yet but the above recommends turning off acpi and using
apm.
Mike
PS
I should make it Tuesday this week.
-------------- Original message ----------------------
From: Tom Brown <tbrown@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Now I'm thinking the lack of cooling may have killed the power subsystem
> for the display on the first laptop I tested. I also note that the
> function key controls don't work -- for instance, I can't
> increase/decrease the brightness on the display. The sensor function in
> the System Benchmark and Profile utility is dead too.
>
> I wonder if there is a kernel module which needs to be loaded to
> activate the Compaq fan, the system control keys and BIOS sensors.
> Caitlyn Martin at O'Reilly blogs she needs to modprobe a Toshiba kernel
> module to get a reasonable X display with all recent versions of Vector
> Linux.
>
> Until we resolve these problems, the Compaq laptops may not be usable
> with Vector Linux or any Gnu/Linux, including the intended use as LTSP
> workstations.
>
> There is a controversy going right now regarding a Foxconn mobo BIOS
> which detects Linux and points it to bogus dsdt tables and thereby
> breaks an industry standard and Gnu/Linux. Faulty BIOS dsdt tables
> appear to be the culprit with Compaq N600 series laptops.
>
> http://www.psychosis.net/evo-linux/
> http://tldp.org/HOWTO/ACPI-HOWTO/dsdt.html
> http://ubuntu-virginia.ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=869249
>
> Tom
>
> Richard Zimmerman wrote:
> > Tom Brown wrote:
> >> :: Laptop Down
> >>
> >> The Compaq Evo N600 laptop...
> >> Something bothers me about the two laptops I've tested. The fans
> >> never come on. Both laptops have P3 1.2 GHz processors and should
> >> require fan cooling. I thought ACPI might be defective in VL so I
> >> turned it off and turned on APM. The fan still doesn't spin up. Hmm...
> > They above has the worlds crappiest ACPI / APM support - as in
> > virtually non existent from what I have read... Don't feel bas, it
> > hasn't worked over here yet either.
> >
> > Goose
> >
> >
> >
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