Warning to all laptop users...

What works, and doesn't, for you. Be specific, and please include Puppy version.

my laptop fan is working under puppy

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John Doe
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#21 Post by John Doe »

The new kernel that is going in puppy 2.17 is supposed to fix some laptop acpi bugs. Maybe that's one of them?

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#22 Post by msumner »

John Doe wrote:The new kernel that is going in puppy 2.17 is supposed to fix some laptop acpi bugs. Maybe that's one of them?
That would be useful.........I'm looking forward to trying 2.17, maybe suspend to disk will be acheivable too.

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#23 Post by Dougal »

John Doe wrote:The new kernel that is going in puppy 2.17 is supposed to fix some laptop acpi bugs. Maybe that's one of them?
Lets hope Barry accepted Craftybytes' suggestion for enabling software-suspend, too...
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#24 Post by HairyWill »

jimjan
I thought I'd posted a reply yesterday.
Have you managed to install the monitoring software?
What temp is your CPU at?
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Old HP/Compaq laptop with broken power supply fan

#25 Post by ExZoniePup »

My old laptop power supply fan doesn't work... I think I knocked it off its axis with a can of compressed air (oops) when it was rattling too much.

Now I have a reason to run Puppy on it and see what the temp is in there. I have been scared to keep it on any longer than an hour or so. The battery is shot on it so it's on AC power constantly, but I had no idea of the temperature of the CPU. Mainly I wanted to keep from frying the hard drive or of course the CPU.

Great advice here, thanks all.

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#26 Post by russ »

I have a Toshiba M35x-S311, it is a centrino with Pentium-M 1.5 Ghz processor. I use Puppy 2.14 "livecd"and the fan cycles on and off. When I strain the mounted hard drive by searching for something there the fan stays on constantly (just as it does in windows XP ). Seems to work normally. Incidentally, I think Puppy was designed for this machine as it picks up all of the hardware, software modem included. I think someone should work on a "laptop Puppy" version. Which would, in my case, include a battery monitor (Batmon) and throttle down ability for the processor when solely on the battery power. I do have both of the above working, but would be nice to have it built in.

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#27 Post by Getnikar »

I have a Toshiba Satellite 1800, approx 4 yr old. Cpu: Celeron (Coppermine) 896MHz, 40Gb HDD. The fan has always cycled on and off ok under Puppy, including old versions (2.x).

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