From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Giacomo Rizzo Subject: ACPI problem Date: Fri, 7 Oct 2005 00:54:03 +0200 Message-ID: <3ebbb09c0510061554h5c19610al9d0ecfabf9707312@mail.gmail.com> Reply-To: Giacomo Rizzo Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="----=_Part_530_1035073.1128639243892" Return-path: Sender: acpi-devel-admin-5NWGOfrQmneRv+LV9MX5uipxlwaOVQ5f@public.gmane.org Errors-To: acpi-devel-admin-5NWGOfrQmneRv+LV9MX5uipxlwaOVQ5f@public.gmane.org List-Unsubscribe: , List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , List-Archive: To: acpi-devel-5NWGOfrQmneRv+LV9MX5uipxlwaOVQ5f@public.gmane.org List-Id: linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org ------=_Part_530_1035073.1128639243892 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline Hi, Len Brown gave me your address because I talked to him about a problem I'm having while trying installing linux (I tried several distros) The problem is that my notebook (a sony pcg-nvr23) shuts down after a random number of seconds during the installation process= . I think it's an acpi problem because once I tried booting Knoppix by keepin= g the temperature around my notebook really low (it was a really cold winter night) Looking at /proc/acpi/temperature I realized that the cpu temperature was getting higher and higher as the second passed, untill my computer turned off. Another weird thing is this. I installed Suse 9.1 always being in a cold place and it seems that the temperature is quite stable (it's not so low bu= t at least it's far from upper limit). I would like to know if it's possible, a way to install any linux distribution without keeping the notebook cool. I tried to pass these options at boot time acpi=3Doff acpi=3Doff doapm acpi=3Don but none of these trys was successful. Do you have any suggestion? I hope so. Thanks anyway Giacomo ------=_Part_530_1035073.1128639243892 Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline Hi,
Len Brown gave me your address because I talked to him
about a problem I'm having while trying installing linux (I tried
several distros)
The problem is that my notebook (a sony pcg-nvr23)
shuts down after a random number of seconds during the installation process= .
I think it's an acpi problem because once I tried booting Knoppix by keepin= g the temperature around
my notebook really low (it was a really cold winter night)
Looking at /proc/acpi/temperature I realized that the cpu temperature was getting higher and higher as the second passed, untill my computer turned off.
Another weird thing is this. I installed Suse 9.1 always being in a cold place and it seems that the temperature is quite stable (it's not so low but at least it's far from upper limit). I would like to know if it's possible, a way to install any linux distribution without keeping the notebook cool.
I tried to pass these options at boot time
acpi=3Doff
acpi=3Doff doapm
acpi=3Don
but none of these trys was successful.
Do you have any suggestion?
I hope so. Thanks anyway
Giacomo
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