[ltp] thinkpad r50 problems

[Luke Yelavich]

On Sun, Jun 27, 2004 at 09:10:54PM EST, Chris Zhang wrote:
> i have a thinkpad r50 laptop with FC2 booting from 2.6.7 kernel. i came with 
> pentium m processor and centrino technology. despite the fact i have ticked 
> pentium M and unticked genric x86 optimisation support which according to the 
> manual will result a worse performance in that selected model. i still 
> happened to get the problem that the fan doesn't stop spinning. i researched 
> on the net and people reported the fan with the same model under windows xp 
> hard spins. i have tried both ACPI and APM, but either improved the 
> situation. certianly this is just my guess, perhpas power mangement have no 
> relevence to fan at all. does any one happen to share the problem? could you 
> please let me know if you can solve this?

I don't think it is possible to control the fan under APM, but I think ACPI has
a fan module that is supposed to help in some way, however I haven't looked at
this yet, as I am currently running APM.

> also, i have trouble compiling the latest ATI driver, i have radeon 7500 video
> card and whenever i was compiling the driver it says:
> 
> Compiling new agpgart module...
> 
> ERROR: AGPGART module did not compile
> 
> Compiling DRM module...
> 
> ERROR: Kernel modules did not compile
> 
> The DRI drivers can not be installed without the latest kernel modules.
> Installation will be aborted. See the dri.log file for information on
> what went wrong.

Have you got the kernel source RPM from FC2 installed? I don't know what it
would be called, as I am not a Fedora user.

hth

Luke