[ltp] Re: TP 600e - High Pitch Noise, and other problems

Lester Cheung lcheung at bigpond.net.au
Tue Apr 15 10:52:39 CEST 2003


TP 600e does not work well with ACPI under Linux from my experience.

If anyway got it to work, I'd like to know.


On Sat, Apr 05, 2003 at 11:21:12AM +0200, Albert Dengg wrote:
> On Fri, 4 Apr 2003 04:56:04 -0800
> "Brandon Philips" <brandon at uncompiled.com> wrote:
> 
> ....
> > 	*The Harddrive spins up and down without reason (I am running
> > 	NoFlushd w/
> > 15min)
> ....
> 
> well, I don't know about your other problems, but if you are running the
> standard kernel, you are most probably running apm, while windows runs
> acpi normally. When running apm, the bios handles power managment
> (although you can do some things by hand, like spinning down
> explicitly)...so, could it be that you activated some function in the
> bios to do that?
> 
> 
> I hope it helps...
> 
> mfg Albert
> 
> 
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