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Posted: Sun 24 Jun 2007, 22:55
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?
Posted: Mon 25 Jun 2007, 18:17
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.
Posted: Mon 25 Jun 2007, 19:55
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...
Posted: Tue 26 Jun 2007, 21:18
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?
Old HP/Compaq laptop with broken power supply fan
Posted: Fri 13 Jul 2007, 01:54
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.
ExZoniePup
Posted: Thu 26 Jul 2007, 22:02
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.
Posted: Sat 28 Jul 2007, 12:28
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).