[ltp] thinkpad r50 problems

[pub@wigginghaus.de]

Hey Chris,
I have the same machine, same problem. But after installing ATIs fglrx-drivers 
on Debian Unstable and 2.6.7 the fan now sometimes stops under LInux as it 
does under Windows XP.
I, too, called IBM-support and am very very disapointed by IBMs way of dealing 
with this problem. I, too, was told that they are working on a fix for that 
problem. That was almost two months ago, haven't heard anything new in the 
forums. I assume it's a hardware problem (wrong fan position, bad 
GPU-cooling) that cannot be fixed. Again - this should not be a problem in a 
fairly high priced product.
Nils

Am Sonntag, 27. Juni 2004 13:10 schrieb Chris Zhang:
> 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?
>
> 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.
>
> any suggestion what went wrong?
>
> Thanks