On Jan 21, 2010, at 5:32 PM, Kasey Smith wrote:
I AM NOT kidding. Linux does not know how two work the CPU voltage part of the SMC chip, which makes electrons jump the electron paths in the CPU, eventually boring new paths and shorting out the CPU.
WOWZA, thats a large pile o'Urban legendosity. Uhh, no. A Lack of drivers for the SMC (which is the power control system for the laptop) merely means that yoiu get the fans on, and poor battery performance.
But even on that note, you're wrong, because the Asus One netbook has the same SMC power management and lo and behold Suse works it quite well.
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