-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Dave Phillips wrote: > Gustin Johnson wrote: >> On my Laptop I noticed that the fan was running at top speed but this >> did match with the actual CPU freq. The CPU was properly scaling but >> this did not effect the fan speed. I wish I had documented what I did >> to solve this, I have a foggy recollection that it was related to the >> nvidia binary driver (oh the evil binary blob again). Probably googled >> for "Ubuntu 8.04 acpi fan speed". This was on two laptops, one Turion >> X2 and the other a Core2 Duo, both with an nVidia video adaptor, and the >> Turion with an nVIdia Chipset (on a barely related note, the Turion is >> the worst computer I have ever owned). >> >> > > Hi Gustin, > > I read a rumor (on LAU ?) to the effect that the Turion was a bad risk
I have had problems with the AM2 and derivative platforms. Right now I only buy Intel based computers. ATI is back on the radar as a result of the radeonhd driver for their latest devices, but for chipsets I am an Intel only guy right now. > for Linux, but I must say that the machine has been a champ here. 64 > Studio 3.0 is the first full 64-bit system I've been able to install and > enjoy on this hardware, and almost everything is working beautifully > now. I've yet to test the wireless and webcam, I don't use those devices > very often. > Wireless was a nightmare (thank you broadcomm and HP, you could not have done worse if you tried). The USB bus was never stable. If I pushed enough data through it would reset and then be unusable until a reboot. Wireless USB (like an rt2500usb I have kicking around) would not work for more than a minute or so. The two USB wifi adaptors I have work with the Intel based netbooks and laptop that I have. In short USB was barely functional up to an including the day I got rid of the thing. Mine did not have a webcam, but there were numerous bugs over the two years that I had this pile-o-crap. It was more than a year and several BIOS updates before it was even useable on a day to day basis. > Btw, I also googled for a solution last night, got no joy. Maybe because > I was in a considerably altered state... Anyway, I'll search with your Most of the solutions I found pointed to the nVidia drivers as the problem. Personally I grab my nVidia driver directly from nVidia.com, I don't bother with the ones provided by the distro. > suggested terms, hopefully will come up with a fix. I wish you luck. May your Turion experience be better than mine. The laptop I just ordered has Intel through and through (CPU, Chipset, wifi, ethernet, and GPU) as all the drivers are upstream. It only took me 10 years to realize that compromise with binary blobs merely wastes your time and is not worth it in the long run. I guess I am not a fast learner. Hth, -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFJqe08wRXgH3rKGfMRApakAJoDUiWNVgbCFtbuGLpTRxTENmD2MQCePrDA gps3OL0JSErg91ImnW2I3tc= =vk8J -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ 64studio-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.64studio.com/mailman/listinfo/64studio-devel
