2008/9/27 Brian McCafferty <brian at mccafferty.ca>: > Initially I had hoped to run Solaris 10 on this beast, but ended up trying > the latest live CD only to > have the same problem. When I boot with ACPI > enabled I have to keep my finger moving on the > touch pad or it appears to > just sit...thinking. Once it loads up, I open up a terminal.... the cursor > > only flashes while I'm moving the mouse or touchpad around. It seems like > the CPU sleeps > constantly. If I boot with ACPI disabled, it seems to work fine other than > now I can only use a > mouse because the touchpad no longer works. Is anyone else using a Satellite > A210? It has > a Turion64x2 processor and the bios options are extremely limited.
You have the reason my new laptop is Intel Core Duo rather than AMD Turion. My old ASUS AMD Turion used to do the same sort of thing, it is a well knwn issue. If your system has an NVidia graphics system the nvidia driver should ping the kernel every second to keep it alive, not sure if any other drivers do that. Issue has been around for about 3 years, don't see any sign of a fix. -- Tony Reeves Christchurch New Zealand
