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soloport

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Registered: 2005-03-01

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Installation Heat Problem

Was installing Arch on an Averatec 3150H laptop and half way through the process it died, cold.  At that moment it dawned on me that I hadn't heard either fan running, the whole time.

So I tried again.  This time I listened more carefully.  As the laptop started, the fans came on.  Moments after I pressed the Return key at "boot: " the fans went dead.

Not knowing what to do, I hurried throught the installation process only to have it die again.  So...  After much research and some guess-work, I succeded in solving the problem.

Should you run into this issue, enter the following at the "boot: " prompt: arch acpi=off

If you learn from the mistakes I've made, then my life will not have been in vain. 

phrakture

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Re: Installation Heat Problem

hmmm, is it older hardware? I haven't come across hardware that had acpi issues, mostly it's apm issues (acpi supercedes apm)...

good call though

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soloport

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Re: Installation Heat Problem

Manufacturing Date: 06/2003

Also, now that Arch is installed and acpid is running, all is well.  Me thinks the version of acpid on the install CD (arch-basic) is simply older than what I'm now running on it.

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soloport

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Re: Installation Heat Problem

Hmmm.

Knowing next to nothing about acpi, I'm now wondering how things are managing to work on my laptop.

I noticed that acpid *wasn't* runing, after all.  However, the fan seems to be turnning on/off as would be expected.  I figure acpi is happening at the kernel level, then?  If so, what's /etc/rc.d/acpid for?

The acpi documentation (Sourceforge) is extremely light.

phrakture

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Re: Installation Heat Problem

acpid is a daemon to handle acpi events - there should be a "handler.sh" script (or something to that effect) which you can customize yourself - you'll get events like "lid closed", "on battery power", and "power button pressed" - acpid is mainly for user events to react to acpi events (i.e. force the screen to blank when the lid is closed, suspend to disk when power button pressed, etc)

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soloport

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Re: Installation Heat Problem

Ah.  Thanks.  Your post confirms my Googling-based conclusions.