[ltp] Re: T61, Lenovo quality, Linux pre-installed, alternatives

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On Tue, Apr 22, 2008 at 08:21:45PM -0300, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote:
> On Wed, 23 Apr 2008, Hendrik-Jan Heins wrote:
> > As for the temperature: how hot is that? And what are the temperature
> > readings from your machine. If it really gets hot, it means your cpu
> > is crunching numbers all the time, run "top" to see which processes
> > make it run all the time.
> 
> Or does it mean that the reverse-engineered fingerprint driver (or its
> PAM glue) is leaving the darned thing on all the time, which is bound to
> not only waste power and cause thermal disconfort, but maybe even damage
> the fingerprint hardware eventually?
> 
> Time for someone to go after that bug, or to donate me a T61 with Intel
> graphics (which would mean instant major increase in the support level
> for that model in thinkpad-acpi and everything else that is clearly
> causing that much trouble) ;-)
Just as a confirmation. On my T43, with the proprietary finger print 
driver, the reader is not on all the time and the finger print spot is 
not hot compared to other points. On my T43, the finger print reader is 
right above hard drive, so if it gets hot, not only it wastes power but 
it also harms the hard drive!
Jiang
> 
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