On 31 Aug 2002 14:16:00 +0200 Mark Janssen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Sat, 2002-08-31 at 12:53, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Boas > > I bought a laptop (clevo 2700t) and i installed in it the woody with the > > kernel > > 2.4.18-bf24. > > when i start the laptop the fan doesn't start and so after some time it > > turn off. > > If i start the laptop a second time,the fan starts and all is fine. Have > > somebody something to say? > > I have the same problem on the clevo 2700c... I think it's a > firmware/bios problem, but have no idea for a solution. > > Laptop crashes under heavy load when the fan won't run (overheating) I read of a similar problem on the acpi list. Kernel 2.4.18 comes with a very limited acpi support. Probably compiling a vanilla kernel + latest acpi path (http://sourceforge.net/projects/acpi) will make the problem disappear. bye, mattia
