> I finally decided to remove Windows XP from my Compaq Evo N600c laptop > and install Gentoo 1.4_r4.
Yaaa, gentoo, woo! I very much love gentoo now; it's on one of my home workstations as well as my laptop's only installation. Portage is great, it includes nearly everything under the sun. For OSS projects, it downloads the sources automatically. However if it's a commercial application, for example WineX, it asks you to buy and download the tgz, then place it in /usr/portage/distfiles, then run "emerge winex". There are only 2 programs that I use that are not in Portage: Veritas NetBackup client for linux, and Kaspersky antivirus. Both of these I intend on making packages for and submitting to gentoo. > After installing from stage3, I began to compile X11 from portage. The > problem is, the fan failed to turn on, causing the laptop to shut off > from heat stroke. Thankfully, my laptop (Inspiron 2650) does fan/cpu control automatically; ie, it will turn on and off the fan banks (this laptop has 5 (!!!) fans in 2 independantly controlled banks) and step up/down the cpu as needed. > Anyone played with ACPI enough to give me some hints? A lot of the > directories in /proc/acpi/ seem to be empty, such as ./processor and > ./thermal_zone. I can only assume this means that I don't have support > for my onboard thermometer so the fan will turn on when things get hot. Ditto. The only thing that shows up (besides blank directories) in /proc/acpi is ac_adapter. How useful. I can also use acpid to control the power button, but that's pretty much it. Using stock 2.4.21 kernel. Don't assume anything. Under WinXP, I can control the CPU stepping, manual fan control, see the battery usage, etc. RF _______________________________________________ RLUG mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.rlug.org/mailman/listinfo/rlug
