On Thursday 31 July 2008 15:28:51 Luca Capello wrote: > Hi Ted! > > On Thu, 31 Jul 2008 15:15:12 +0200, Theodore Tso wrote: > > On Thu, Jul 31, 2008 at 03:04:03PM +0200, Luca Capello wrote: > >> I read the list, thanks. I was so surprised that no one reported this > >> issue before and I've already planned to deal with it during > >> DebCamp8/DebConf8 (starting on Sunday, Aug 3rd [2]). > > > > One possibility is that it's a hardware problem; for example, it could > > be that your heat sink on the CPU or GPU didn't have enough thermal > > compound installed, or some such. > > In that case I'd try to have it repaired ;-) Mine was repaired twice because of problems with the heatpipe and the fans. And it helped. But that is a X61. Christoph > > > I have an X61s, which has a different BIOS series and a low-voltage > > CPU chip, so it's not directly comparable, but I can say that I've not > > had any problems even when I've loaded the CPU significantly. > > OK, if you want to give a try to my test case: > > $ [install darcs] > $ darcs get > http://alioth.debian.org/~gismo/darcs-pull-bug/parenscript.upstream/ $ > darcs get http://alioth.debian.org/~gismo/darcs-pull-bug/parenscript/ $ cd > parenscript > $ darcs pull ../parenscript.upstream/ > [choose to apply only the first patch] > > At that point, darcs takes 100% of the CPU and temperature starts to > rise :-( > > FWIW, the same process on a PIII-500 is running for more than 5819 > *hours* and it haven't finished nor spotted an error, yet. > > > Of course, I also use mainline kernels and not Debian kernels. One > > thing that you might try to do while you are at DebConf is to see if > > you can find other people with the same laptop model and see if they > > can duplicate the problem on their machine, so you can try varying > > both the Debian/non-debian kernel, as well as trying to see if you can > > reproduce the problem on multiple laptops. > > This was exactly my idea: I already know that at least another X60 > Debian Developer will be at DebConf8, this is another reason I waited. > > Thx, bye, > Gismo / Luca -- Christoph Kluenter E-Mail: ck@xxxxxxxx Technik Tel: +49 (0)40 374919-10 IPHH Internet Port Hamburg GmbH Fax: +49 (0)40 374919-29 Grosse Reichenstrasse 27 AG Hamburg, HRB 76071 D-20457 Hamburg Geschaeftsfuehrung: Axel G. Kroeger ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ _______________________________________________ ibm-acpi-devel mailing list ibm-acpi-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ibm-acpi-devel
