> 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 > _______________________________________________ > laptop-discuss mailing list > laptop-discuss at opensolaris.org
O.k....I might be out of luck then, the graphics is Ati x1200. So, this is an issue with the Turion and its power saving features? Thanks, Brian -- This message posted from opensolaris.org
