From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Daniel Alonso Subject: Great improvement in laptop with different acpi boot options Date: Wed, 02 Apr 2008 01:18:05 +0200 Message-ID: <47F2C2AD.2020802@apanoia.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from smtp103.biz.mail.re2.yahoo.com ([68.142.229.217]:25531 "HELO smtp103.biz.mail.re2.yahoo.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S1754947AbYDAXYt (ORCPT ); Tue, 1 Apr 2008 19:24:49 -0400 Sender: linux-acpi-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org To: linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org Hi, As requested I'm sending this mail to notify that the behavior of my laptop (Sony VAIO VGN-FZ21S) improves when I add the following to options to my kernel: acpi_apic_instance=2 acpi_osi=Linux Before this change: 1) The fans were always running full speed 2) The temperature measures were higher 3) In my core cpu, it seemed that both cpus were not independent of each other, but always with same load. Now all these erratic behaviors have been fixed. Best regards.