Re: Brand-new notebook useless with Linux...

From: Cal Peake
Date: Mon Sep 05 2005 - 21:10:37 EST


On Mon, 5 Sep 2005, Mathieu wrote:

> the bioses released by phoenix seem a little broken. try a 2.6.13
> kernel with the option ec_burst=1.

I agree with the broken phoenix part but be careful playing with ec_burst.
When it was set to default pre-2.6.13-rc6 it caused my laptop to overheat
and trip the thermal shutdown on several occasions before I figured out
what the hell was going on (the fan wasn't getting spun when needed).

good luck,
-cp

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