From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Mathew Brown" Subject: Preventing ACPI from Damaging Your CPU Date: Thu, 12 Oct 2006 07:26:00 -0700 Message-ID: <1160663160.13196.273175261@webmail.messagingengine.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from out1.smtp.messagingengine.com ([66.111.4.25]:21950 "EHLO out1.smtp.messagingengine.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1422688AbWJLOZ7 (ORCPT ); Thu, 12 Oct 2006 10:25:59 -0400 Received: from db2.internal (db2.internal [10.202.2.12]) by frontend1.messagingengine.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id ED3B8DB2E33 for ; Thu, 12 Oct 2006 10:25:57 -0400 (EDT) Content-Disposition: inline Sender: linux-acpi-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org To: linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org Hi, I've been reading an alarming article on getting Gentoo to work on the HP Compaq nx6325 (http://gentoo-wiki.com/HARDWARE_Gentoo_on_HP_Compaq_nx6325) and the serious ACPI problems that were encountered. The author states after mentioning how to apply certain patches, "Without that, the CPU might overheat and get damaged during heavy load (such as compiling a Gentoo stage ...)!" What would be the safest way to ensure that ACPI doesn't do this to your machine / laptop without disabling ACPI? Would recompiling the DSDT using the Intel compiler and re-inserting it be enough to ensure that ACPI doesn't cause your CPU to overheat or get damaged? Thanks for your help. -- Mathew Brown mathewbrown@fastmail.fm -- http://www.fastmail.fm - A no graphics, no pop-ups email service