[ltp] Adding more cooling to the T42p

[David A. Desrosiers]

> Have you played with the graphics driver, i.e. switched between the 
> proprietary fglrx driver and the xorg radeon driver?

 	I've never run the fglrx driver, always ati or r300 directly. 
The only build of r300 which works without locking up the machine 10 
seconds after I launch X, is 7/20/2005. Anything after that date (Xorg 
+ Mesa + drm + r300), will lock up the machine, even when its at 40C.

> Shouldn't happen. Are you sure it's the GPU locking on you? Did you 
> try running memtest86 to check whether memory is OK?

 	Memory is fine, I've run memtest many times on it. I just 
added another gig of RAM about a month ago, and things have been 
working great (though it feels no different than when I only had 1GiB 
total, applications run exactly the same, even with more headroom to 
play in).

> Try playing with ibm-acpi.sourceforge.net and use the experimental=1 
> flag to have control over the fan.

 	The only "control" is to turn it on, or off. I'd like to be 
able to control the speed of it. But I've always been running 
experimental=1 with v0.11 anyway, since thats the only way to tinker 
with some of the other features (ecdump, thermals, etc.)

 	I'll give this a whirl today and see what I can come up with.


David A. Desrosiers
desrod@gnu-designs.com
http://gnu-designs.com