Re: [Hampshire] Debian on Toshiba Laptops

2008-11-03 Thread Clive Woodfine
On 03/11/2008, Simon Capstick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > My experience of old laptops is that the heat sink can collect fluff > becoming less efficient, requiring the fan more often or permanently. > Forcing the fan off can then cause stability issues. Better to clear > the fluff instead (which

Re: [Hampshire] Debian on Toshiba Laptops

2008-11-03 Thread Simon Capstick
Clive Woodfine wrote: > On 02/11/2008, Philip Stubbs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> This is strange. My old Toshiba laptop works much better with Linux. >> Only under Windows does the fan play up. Normally staying on when not >> needed. >> Regards, Philip. >> > In my case I only have Linux installed

Re: [Hampshire] Debian on Toshiba Laptops

2008-11-02 Thread Clive Woodfine
On 02/11/2008, Philip Stubbs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > This is strange. My old Toshiba laptop works much better with Linux. > Only under Windows does the fan play up. Normally staying on when not > needed. > Regards, Philip. > In my case I only have Linux installed. I think when I installed it t

Re: [Hampshire] Debian on Toshiba Laptops

2008-11-02 Thread Philip Stubbs
This is strange. My old Toshiba laptop works much better with Linux. Only under Windows does the fan play up. Normally staying on when not needed. Regards, Philip. On 01/11/2008, Clive Woodfine <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > This may be of interest to users Toshiba Laptops running Debian based OS's.

Re: [Hampshire] Debian on Toshiba Laptops

2008-11-02 Thread Greg Auger
I have an ancient toshiba laptop, this looks very interesting. Thanks Clive! On Sat, Nov 1, 2008 at 10:12 PM, Clive Woodfine <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > This may be of interest to users Toshiba Laptops running Debian based OS's. > > I have noticed my Satellite 4090XCDT seemed to get slower and sl

[Hampshire] Debian on Toshiba Laptops

2008-11-01 Thread Clive Woodfine
This may be of interest to users Toshiba Laptops running Debian based OS's. I have noticed my Satellite 4090XCDT seemed to get slower and slower and hotter and hotter the longer it is on. I can hear the CPU fan running but the main fan is never on. I have had the machine apart and found the fan wo