[ltp] 2.6 kernel kills the CPU fan

[Helen Borrie]

At 09:43 AM 8/09/2005 -0400, Bert Haskins wrote:

>>>If it is the OS, are you running APM or ACPI?  If you run either the apm 
>>>or acpi commands, what do you get?

I thought it might be of interest to report that, following Richard Neill's 
advice, I updated the BIOS of the TP390E to the latest from the Lenovo 
site.  The existing one was tres ancien...hiked from R01_B4 to R01_C9.

Following that, *everything* now works properly in Mdk 10.1 and CPU is no 
longer prone to conking out.  APM appears to be working as designed;  acpi 
is now switched off.  Sound is working properly, when one remembered to go 
into the BIOS program again and re-disable PCI power management (so far: 
mp3 & CDs are fine, haven't tried other formats);  the cardbus Ethernet 
card is working well (I'm reading the mp3 files across my intranet as I 
have stacks of spare diskspace on that server);  my Firebird database 
server is as happy as Larry. I've yet to reinstall the modem driver, but am 
not too fassed about that.

I have confirmed that there's nothing wrong with the CPU fan.  I've been 
running the machine now for > 24 hours, with just a couple of reboots for 
the BIOS upgrade and to flash the battery.  We had a warm day here today, 
too, for early Spring, 26 Celcius this afternoon, and all seems to be doing 
what it should now:  the fan is kicking in when needed, instead of the 
machine going into Suspend.

Thanks, chaps, for the right advice that got me where I needed to go.

cheers,
Helen