[ltp] X61 or X61s (loud fan)

[Henrique de Moraes Holschuh]

On Thu, 21 Aug 2008, Christian Fromme wrote:
> You can get rid of the heat at least partly with:
> 
> # iwconfig wlan0 txpower 10
> 
> or similar. Help on mine.

txpower 5 selects battery mode (the one that saves more power AFAIK), but
any of them (on a card that supports it) will help.  It *will* decrease WiFi
throughput, obviously.

> After writing back and forth with my supplier www.business-laptops.de who
> was *very* helpful and great, I decided to give the X61s a try. It'll
> arrive next week and I will write a follow-up to tell you how I got along.

Just make sure to use it with 2.6.25.16 (not 2.6.26.x, x < 4), and to use
the very latest BIOS (if the box comes with Windows, don't wipe it out at
first.  Run it and let it update the entire box.  I will even suggest that
you keep a windows partition around to compare Linux behaviour with Windows
behaviour for a while, until you are secure on the knowledge everything is
acting as it should in Linux).

-- 
  "One disk to rule them all, One disk to find them. One disk to bring
  them all and in the darkness grind them. In the Land of Redmond
  where the shadows lie." -- The Silicon Valley Tarot
  Henrique Holschuh