AMD Athalon64 (Turion) 2x overheats under 2.6.27.x kernel ...
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in the BIOS ? as i wrote, it had nothing to say about power other than displaying the name info of the CPU. didn't have any voltage display, settings or info.
plugnplay is experimental has been that way for sence the the first kernel. as you know linux is a plugnplay system but it reads the bios not well but it dois. so when you cofigure the kernel you build it with acpi=y
plgnply=y.
and most of the big kernels today like the ones i build are 4.5 mb I build it that way so I can put my hard drive in any computer and use it. when booting acpi=off is nice.if you have power problems you do.
the kernel has all the drivers i need to boot any machine down fall when they are this big some times the kernel miss reads and loads or double loads stuff.
the reason your machine is hot and slow is all your stuff is being pushed through the cpu. instead of DMA from the agp card. so what I would do would go in and do a xorgconfig and find the generic driver for it and set my monitor stuff up. things to know your agp chip. your monitor specs. you will find there is a good generic driver in there for it if not do not use xorg use the light weight xvesa in stead that is the default if thing get broken any way. even though it is light weight it still does 24 bit color but you will not have any 3d.. xvesa uses the generic generic driver.
so, you are saying i should re-do my xorg.conf file ?
how would that perform differently between LILO boot A ( 2.6.24.5 kernel ) and boot B ( 2.6.27.7 kernel ) ?
you might suggest something relevant which i'll look into, however it's really hard to understand what it is you wrote about and the previous post is not relevant.
so, you are saying i should re-do my xorg.conf file ?
how would that perform differently between LILO boot A ( 2.6.24.5 kernel ) and boot B ( 2.6.27.7 kernel ) ?
you might suggest something relevant which i'll look into, however it's really hard to understand what it is you wrote about and the previous post is not relevant.
-daniel
you asked why the difference between kernels I told you and yes re do the xorg. slow and hot means hot cpu from push frame buffer through the bus. if you do not understand I hope some one that has the abillity to would try to. I built a small program that turns on my fan to my laptop. check out linux on laptops. all your answers are there.
how to kernel http://www.linuxheadquarters.com/how...elconfig.shtml and https://help.ubuntu.com/community/RadeonDriver
power of google . oh yeah google is linux.
you have it backwards, but i'm still trying to understand your suggestion so as to try it.
i have two kernels -- one overheats and one does not over heat.
the kernel which does not overheat is the large kernel version 2.6.24.5, the default Slackware kernel -- this is called hugesmp.s. it is approximately 4.4mb and contains more modules and components than i can count.
the kernel which is overheating is the kernel i am trying to build, version 2.6.27.7 and has only a few minimal modules and components which are needed for my laptop.
there is no huge load "being pushed through" Direct Memory Access nor through the CPU. both are working at or near idle.
i hope i have explained the situation a little better.
both kernel's do load all of the ACPI modules, cpufreq_ondemand, thermal, processor, fan, ac, button, power etc., but perhaps the fan module isn't working with the others correctly ? it's something i'll look into.
Okay, i have a slight break through!!!
the problem is not ACPI malfunctioning -- the problem is the RealTek rtl8187b driver which is going bonkers! specifically it is the ieee80211-rtl.ko module. i'm looking into the code now to see where the problem lies, and once i can stay on-line long enough to post a solution i'll do so.
if anyone has experience with this module having a problem, please let me know.
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