2007/4/18, Dan McGee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On 4/15/07, Tobias Powalowski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi folks, > > the new kernel has acpi modules as much modularized as possible, it was > > requested due to some people having problems with the monitoring modules in > > the kernel. > > > > I have written a small wiki about the acpi modules, you need to add them to > > your MODULES=() array in rc.conf. > > > > http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Acpi_modules > > I just found this to be an AWFUL idea. My computer just died due to > overheating. It was fine after I let it cool off- and rebooted and > loaded the thermal module as quick as I could.
Weird. Was it so hardly loaded or badly cooled? IMHO tha's not normal that hardware overheats with power-saving features turned off. > > We can't do this to everyone's machine because of a few people- this > could fuck over a lot of people (excuse the language). I know it just > cost me the better part of an hour, and I haven't even found which > modules I actually need yet! > > There has to be a better way than this. Not happy right now. Load all modules except those who will fail on modprobe ;-) Dunno if it is possible to load them with udev automatically. :-/ -- Roman Kyrylych (Роман Кирилич) _______________________________________________ arch mailing list [email protected] http://archlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/arch
