Hallo, Lee Revell hat gesagt: // Lee Revell wrote: > > maybe it's indeed best to try to create a kind of whitelist as > > you suggested. And of course a blacklist, which could create > > pressure on manufacturers. > > Right now all I have is some anecdotal evidence that many Acer > laptops seem to have the ACPI/SMM bug. Can someone with an Acer > laptop confirm or deny this? I sold my Acer laptop. The MSI S260 I have now isn't completely tuned for low latency (no VP-patch) but I don't get any strange xruns either. It might be that the fan speed is not controlled by the BIOS, but instead by some special chip. The reason I believ this is because owners of the S260 complained with MSI, that the fan was always running. MSI reacted in a very nice way by providing a new firmware for the fan controller chip which makes it start at 60° instead of at 40° as before. This firmware is not a BIOS update. Now I cannot test anymore if fan speed changes affect latency, because the fan is always off. ;) Ciao -- Frank Barknecht _ ______footils.org_ __goto10.org__
