On Thursday, 12 October 2006 16:26, Mathew Brown wrote: > Hi, > I've been reading an alarming article on getting Gentoo to work on the > HP Compaq nx6325 > (http://gentoo-wiki.com/HARDWARE_Gentoo_on_HP_Compaq_nx6325) and the > serious ACPI problems that were encountered. The author states after > mentioning how to apply certain patches, "Without that, the CPU might > overheat and get damaged during heavy load (such as compiling a Gentoo > stage ...)!" > > What would be the safest way to ensure that ACPI doesn't do this to > your machine / laptop without disabling ACPI? Would recompiling the > DSDT using the Intel compiler and re-inserting it be enough to ensure > that ACPI doesn't cause your CPU to overheat or get damaged? Thanks > for your help. Please see http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=7122, especially http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=7122#c27 and below. Greetings, Rafael -- You never change things by fighting the existing reality. R. Buckminster Fuller - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-acpi" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
