[Gllug] Laptop in a spin

[Alistair Mann]

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Thus spaketh Tom Schutzer-Weissmann on Tuesday 27 January 2004 10:01 am:
> My laptop has an annoying habit of deciding to run v e r y   s l o w l y
>  for no apparent reason. The load goes to about 90% but I can't find any
> proces responsible using top or ps. The run level seems to make very
> little difference, although after five minutes of treaclely
> unresponsiveness and the fan doing a hovercraft impression, level 0 is
> very restful.
>
> Can you suggest some methods to investigate this?
> The little I know is:
> - it happens more often on battery power than AC power.
> - I'm using ACPI and kernel 2.6.1.  Aha! Well, I could never get the
> wireless drivers (orinoco_pci or hostap_pci) to work until I tried 2.6,
> and it won't boot with APM instead of ACPI. It's actually a slight
> improvement on the 2.4.22 kernel that came with Slackware, because that
> would sometimes just hang on battery power, and the wireless would never
> work at all.

My laptop has a crippled CPU: a p3 Tuatinin (or something!) that believes the 
temp is 85c -- permanently. Intel report that this causes idle cycles to be 
forced, helping to cool the processor down (though, of course, mine doesn't). 
The overall effect is as as you but with one difference: my fans operate 
permanently at full speed (or would, were it not for i8kmon).

AIUI, many wireless cards don't work with less than 2.4.23 as the drivers make 
use of that versions new config_fw_loader.
- -- 
Alistair
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