Lan Barnes wrote:
Morning Report: This morning after a night of being off, it started and immediately reported a temp of 68 C rather than the 22 C it had previously. There have been no heat symptoms in operation or temp of various parts. I conclude that whatever is reporting the heat in the bios has lost its calibration ... or something similar. The bios window on boot has two simplistic screens, so I'm either not finding the whole bios config (don't start me on the goofy way Toshiba chose to boot into the bios or to the CD drive), or it's drain bed. Long and short of it: I believe that the laptop is operational in every respect except reporting CPU heat. Expect it at the SDTUG meeting this Thursday.
BTW, make sure you have the ACPI service turned on, and the APM service turned off. (In Fedora: system-config-services.) They conflict with each other, and APM is being phased out in preference to ACPI.
What specific model is your laptop? It's often makes a difference when trying to manage laptop-specific problems in Linux.
Here is a short list of websites which may provide some useful information. I haven't read all the details of these, but you may find them useful:
http://memebeam.org/toys/ToshibaAcpiDriver http://freebie.miraclenet.co.th/notebook/toshctl/ http://sourceforge.net/projects/fnfx http://www.thorstenhaas.de/toshiba2410/ **** http://www.michaelminn.com/linux/notebooks/toshiba1905.html *** http://omnibook.sourceforge.net/doku.php http://osdir.com/ml/acpi.devel/ (last resort). ***** http://acpi.sourceforge.net/ (ask about your problem on this mailing list) -- Best Regards, ~DJA. -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
