** Description changed: Binary package hint: linux-image-2.6.17-10-386 Hello. I have a Fujitsu l1310g based on ati IXP chipset with radeon Xpress 200M Recently discussed on the forum, some of us (and looks like more and more with different types of notebooks) are having this problem. Sometimes when you boot the laptop, after the splash screen appears, the laptop fan stops. When it works, works like it should be, not always on (going much better than dapper). But sometimes doesn't work at all, and the laptop overheat. I've been unable to see anything weird at the logs, dmesg and stuff, and at /proc, the fan part, it reports that the fans are on (the two that comes with the laptop). Booting with 2.6.15, the fans works like it were on dapper, always on. If I boot on windows when i have the fan stopped, and then boot on edgy, the fan works again. When the laptop is overheated, i have to wait to cool it down, to try to boot again with edgy, because if i don't do that, every other boot resolves in a non-working fan. + + This problem seems related to the psmouse module: + @See [ACPI problems and solution] http://www.wolframschenck.de/nx6325.htm + + The ACPI problem is threefold: + (1) The psmouse module is compiled directly into the kernel. This causes rebooting into a "bad state". If Linux is directly started after a reboot or shutdown from Linux, ACPI freaks completely out including the read-out of the battery status. + (2) The DSDT table of the bios seems to be broken regarding the methods of turning the CPU fan on. + (3) ACPI events are not processed properly in the kernel.
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