No, not suggesting that at all. What I was trying to get across is that
modules don't "fail" in that manner. There may be a problem with the
BIOS (as others have said) that would interact badly with an ACPI
module, but that wouldn't be Linux/Ubuntu's fault. My original
statement was based on the fact that Linux/Ubuntu has been installed
thousands of times on a Dell Latitude, and has worked just fine.
Perhaps I didn't come across very well with that, but that was the intent...
Dan
Stanley Brinkerhoff wrote:
Dan,
Are you suggesting that the operating system has absolutely no ability
control over the system fan's? Specifically that there is no way the
i8k kernel module somehow failed and left the fans in a disabled
state, and/or that some other ACPI control system disabled CPU throttling?
In this case it seems as though the CPU fan died of its own means
around the same time I installed Ubuntu; or simply the installation
exacerbated the issue due to installing Ubuntu and performing updates
caused the system to work at full cpu speed -- while Windows was able
to scale the CPU speed back as I was not doing anything very intense.
That failure along with the system running extremely hot for a period
of time perhaps assisted a 2 year old abused laptop drive to stop
working (it actually works now that it has cooled off.. as scarry as
that seems to me... so it may have just been a southgate/ide
controller overheating).
Stan
On Mon, Dec 29, 2008 at 3:50 PM, Dan Clough <[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
Hogwash. Clearly a hardware (HD, fan maybe) failure, and nothing
to do with Ubuntu or linux.
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*From*: Stanley Brinkerhoff
*Date*: Mon, 29 Dec 2008 14:20:23 -0500
*To*: <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>>
*Subject*: Ubuntu killed my harddrive!
I have been running Windows 2008 Server on my laptop for the past
120 days. Last night it finally gave me a "register or die"
message, and I was going to give Ubuntu a shot as my primary OS.
I already run it on my servers and development laptop, but day to
day I still use Windows.
I installed it last night, and went to bed with it running
updates. This morning it was turned off, and when I turned it
back on it said something about the machine as shutdown due to
thermal failure (!!). Today at work I was working away ... and
the machine became very slow (it was just idling with some
terminal windows open). I shut it down, picked it up and it
literally burned my hands. I let it cool down, and now it refuses
to recognize the harddrive (a replacement works -- yay for spare
parts!).
Has anyone ever experienced this?? Is there something special you
need to do with a modern-ish Dell laptop to run Ubutnu? Its been
chugging away fine for years on my Dell Latitude X300 and other
laptops.
LINUX (or some combination of that and bad power management?)
KILLED MY HARDDRIVE!
Stan
Ubuntu 8.10, Dell latitude D620, intel core duo 2.0ghz.
