On Friday 21 September 2001 17:10, George Jones (IT) wrote: > Destroy it??? How? > There is a soldered-in EPROM to manage the I2C Bus, possibly integrated into a larger chip or package. It is not flashable from the board, but somehow lm_sensors finds a way to overwrite it with garbage. Once this happens, the laptop simply stops working, and nothing short of a motherboard replacement will remedy the situation. IBM has apparently known of this since mid 2000. Civileme > /me doesn't have it loaded, but is curious. > > George E. Jones IV > Store Systems Support > Borders Group Inc. > > -----Original Message----- > From: civileme [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Friday, September 21, 2001 8:47 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Leif Madsen > Subject: Re: [expert] Trackpoint on IBM A22e with Mandrake 8.0 > > On Friday 21 September 2001 13:37, Leif Madsen wrote: > > Freq 2? > > ftp://ftp.sunet.se/pub/Linux/distributions/mandrake-iso/i586 > > That's Freq3 which will also work. > > You can also work properly by using the kernel22-2.2.19-10mdk.i586.rpm as > your kernel. It is safer anyway. I dread the day when someone forces an > install of lm_utils onto an IBM notebook and checks battery power, cause > his > > next act will be a factory return for a new motherboard. At least we, > unlike > the others, keep it unloaded by default so you have to track it down to > load > > and execute, and destroy your notebook. > > Civileme > > > Leif Madsen - Project Manager > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > http://www.plannettechnologies.com > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > > From: civileme <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; George Jones (IT) > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Sent: Friday, September 21, 2001 4:25 AM > > Subject: Re: [expert] Trackpoint on IBM A22e with Mandrake 8.0 > > > > > On Friday 21 September 2001 00:01, George Jones (IT) wrote: > > > > One more reason why I now use MDK 7.2 instead of 8. > > > > > > Fixed in Freq 2
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