On Thu, Oct 12, 2006 at 07:26:00AM -0700, Mathew Brown wrote: > I've been reading an alarming article on getting Gentoo to work on the > HP Compaq nx6325 > (http://gentoo-wiki.com/HARDWARE_Gentoo_on_HP_Compaq_nx6325) and the > serious ACPI problems that were encountered. The author states after > mentioning how to apply certain patches, "Without that, the CPU might > overheat and get damaged during heavy load (such as compiling a Gentoo > stage ...)!"
The author is wrong. Recent HP laptops all have hardcoded support in the fan control hardware, which will force the fan on if the temperature rises above 80 degrees. -- Matthew Garrett | [EMAIL PROTECTED] - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-acpi" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
