Re: OFW Q3A15

2009-11-03 Thread Emiliano Pastorino
Mitch, Does q3a15 automatically throttle the processor in case of overheating? If so, is there a way to check if it is working? cat /proc/cpuinfo maybe? Thanks! On Fri, Oct 30, 2009 at 6:52 AM, Mitch Bradley w...@laptop.org wrote: http://wiki.laptop.org/go/OLPC_Firmware_q3a15 Lots of good

Re: OFW Q3A15

2009-11-03 Thread John Watlington
If you think you might be having troubles with overheating on your XO-1.5, the heat spreader is suspect. After removal (to change the SD, check out the motherboard, etc) and sometimes even before then, the heat spreader doesn't make good contact with the VX855 and the CPU. I suggest bending

Re: OFW Q3A15

2009-11-03 Thread Mitch Bradley
Emiliano Pastorino wrote: Mitch, Does q3a15 automatically throttle the processor in case of overheating? Yes If so, is there a way to check if it is working? cat /proc/cpuinfo maybe? Here is a test you can do with Open Firmware: ok show-temperature (cr many That command runs the CPU

Re: OFW Q3A15

2009-11-03 Thread Emiliano Pastorino
There is a way to check the temperature under Linux. It involves the lmsensors package, but I don't know the exact details. Yes, that's what I've been using. The package is lm_sensors, if installed, you just have to type sensors and you get the temperature in ÂșC. I've already checked that

Re: OFW Q3A15

2009-11-03 Thread Rafael Enrique Ortiz Guerrero
Rafael Ortiz On Tue, Nov 3, 2009 at 10:54 AM, Mitch Bradley w...@laptop.org wrote: Emiliano Pastorino wrote: Mitch, Does q3a15 automatically throttle the processor in case of overheating? Yes If so, is there a way to check if it is working? cat /proc/cpuinfo maybe? Here is a test

Re: OFW Q3A15

2009-11-03 Thread Mitch Bradley
Emiliano Pastorino wrote: There is a way to check the temperature under Linux. It involves the lmsensors package, but I don't know the exact details. Yes, that's what I've been using. The package is lm_sensors, if installed, you just have to type sensors and you get the

OFW Q3A15

2009-10-30 Thread Mitch Bradley
http://wiki.laptop.org/go/OLPC_Firmware_q3a15 Lots of good stuff. Please help me test it! My trac tickets are at http://dev.laptop.org/report/41 . If you click on the Action Needed column, the test in release tickets will collate together. Those tickets are ostensibly fixed in q3a15. It