On Thursday, 12 October 2006 18:51, Mathew Brown wrote: > Thanks for your reply Rafael. However, I was looking for a generic > solution. I don't have an nx6325 but was thinking of purchasing a > laptop and was afraid that ACPI could damage / overheat by CPUs. I > think the link you provided is specific to the nx6325 unless I'm > mistaken. Is there any generic solution? Would recompiling the DSDT > and re-inserting it guarantee that no overheat / damage happens > regardless of the laptop / machine? No, it wouldn't, AFAICT. Greetings, Rafael > On Thu, 12 Oct 2006 16:46:19 +0200, "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@xxxxxxx> > said: > > 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 > -- > Mathew Brown > mathewbrown@xxxxxxxxxxx > -- 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
