I G40 is kind of funny. When I first got it, after uppacking it and powering it up, I was looking for something to play with. I brought up IE as I had a CA CD that has HTML on it. Anyway, when I looked at the first screen, (not from the CD) I thought that looked kind of fresh. I thought I was reading from the hard drive. I went to www.ibm.com and that came up. Just what did they load on my hard drive? So I went to our local newspaper and there it was, with the current date and headlines! Just a power plug in the laptop. The ethernet cable was in my hand!
It took a while to figure out that my neighborhood has 15-20 wi-fi thingies. Hell, I didn't know what wi-fi was at that point. It was a strange feeling. Anyway, with XP, the laptop would overheat, only when it was on my lap. Great laptop huh? After playing around for a week, I found that the APM software wasn't initialized! Yes, it was up and running but it had 7 choices for battery and for plugged operation. One of each has to be checked. None were. I loaded Suse 9.0 on it. Basically Suse works pretty good. But, it didn't come up with any type of power management stuff. In fact, immediately after booting, it tells me that my battery is dead. Still got to go back to work on that stuff. The web sites listed yesterday will be a great help. Already printed out the documentation, just need to understand what they are saying. And with this release, StarOffice works! Or at least works so far. No need to boot back to XP to run Lotus. So the only thing left I need windows for, is Turbotax and Quicken. I do keep sending notes to them requesting Linux versions. Anyway, back to your comments, I dont' think there is any APM type software installed with the Suse default installation. But I really haven't looked to far. Maybe it is on one of the CDs. I expected, that, if installed, there would be an icon on the task bar. Tom Duerbusch THD Consulting >>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] 02/24/04 10:24AM >>> Tom Duerbusch wrote: .. > > When I boot Linux, I got about 20 minutes before the G40 overheats. It > shuts down and you have to wait until it cools off, disconnect the power > and take out the battery, put everything back and you then can power up > again. You'll want to experiment with acpi and apm settings. Try everything off first. Then try apm on, acpi off. Then try acpi on, apm off (which is probably what your are doing right now). Often times there is a BIOS setting to run the fan even while connected to AC... turn that on (laptops run WAY to hot... there is NO concern about proper cooling anymore... NONE!). We have deployed about 30 Compaq n610c laptops as Linux clients.... it was tricky, but we made SUSE work... and it works, we could not get RH to work reliably on the platform. We had to do several tricks. One was the fan. However, even so, if you have a high speed (5400rpm) drive in the unit, the drive will eventually overheat with time. VERY bad ventilation design. Btw... this overheat is regardless of OS (the Windows guys are dropping drives as well). I don't think Compaq actively ships the n610c (I think they may do the n620c or n630c)... send me direct mail if you want "the tricks" for the screen blanking issue in particular. I'm not posting it here now, just because I'm away from notes at the moment. But I'll share if there is any interest.
