Hi! > > > A few months ago, I installed suspend2 on my laptop. It worked great for > > > a few days, when suddenly my laptop started to get very hot and the fan > > > costantly went off, and then I started getting these: > > > > I take it as "if I keep it for a week powered off, it will not do > > this". > > Not quite. It's more of, "if I suspend everynight instead of leaving it > running or shutting it down, it will do this" or "if I power off at night > or just leave it running, it will not do this". Okay, can you try to leave it up for a week or two (no suspends, no poweroffs) and see what happens? > > P4 has thermal protection, so you are actually safe. > > Yeah, but still, the keyboard gets pretty hot too, and I'm actually more > worried about damaging something that is close by than damaging the CPU > itself. If you damage something, machine was misdesigned in the first place. cat we get contents of /proc/acpi/thermal*/*/* ? > $ sudo modprobe ibm_acpi > $ ls /proc/acpi/ibm/ > bay bluetooth driver led thermal > beep cmos hotkey light video > > No fan there Does ibm/thermal work? Seems like fan is completely controlled by hardware. What may still help: either saving or avoiding saving reserved parts of memory. But this is all magic. How s2ram works would be useful info. Pavel -- (english) http://www.livejournal.com/~pavelmachek (cesky, pictures) http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~pavel/picture/horses/blog.html
