[tlinux-users 00370] Re: Toshiba Satellite A215-S5818 running Fedora Core 11 64 bit, very concerned for CPU fan

Thu Jul 16 18:51:08 JST 2009

Ryan,

You may also try the pre-packaged ATI's proprietary fglrx from
rpmfusion.org. This is a repository for all the non-free and non-GPL
friendly software, which can be installed on your machine. You'll have
to install both the RPM fusion free and RPM fusion non-free using:

su -c 'rpm -Uvh
http://download1.rpmfusion.org/free/fedora/rpmfusion-free-release-stable.noarch.rpm
http://download1.rpmfusion.org/nonfree/fedora/rpmfusion-nonfree-release-stable.noarch.rpm'

in a root shell and then run yum and search for an fglrx package.

$ yum search fglrx

In general, the community would/may have already done the job for
Fedora end-users and you may find your package.

Regards,
Ilyes Gouta.

On Wed, Jul 15, 2009 at 11:19 PM, Ryan Gandy<mica1884 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Ilyes,
>
> Version 9.3 of the driver isn't supported by Fedora 11's Xserver.  Already
> running radeonhd for X.  It cuts down on most of the screen flicker I've
> been experiencing in KDE.
>
> I'd really like to know which version I could get away with using though.
>
> On another front, I finally - with the newest SVN revision - got the
> omnibook module to compile, and I've loaded it a few times with varying
> results displayed in /proc/omnibook (ectype 15 may be working out for me but
> 16 is the only one that displays a "fan" entry), so I'll try following that
> through to its conclusion on the omnibook mailing list or something similar.
>
> Thank you very much for your suggestions, I'll let you know if the
> proprietary driver helps.
>
> On Wed, Jul 15, 2009 at 4:21 AM, Ilyes Gouta <ilyes.gouta at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Hi Ryan,
>>
>> Could it be your ATI X1200 which is blasting the hot air from the side
>> of your laptop? AFAIK, Linux has a proper support for CPU frequency
>> scaling and power management across the wide variety of x86 chips and
>> it's unlikely that your CPU is the source of your problems. Did you
>> try installing the proprietary fglrx driver from ATI?
>>
>>
>> http://support.amd.com/us/gpudownload/linux/Legacy/Pages/radeon_linux.aspx?type=2.4.1&product=2.4.1.3.7&lang=English
>>
>> ATI isn't going to support "old" chips in the future, so that you may
>> also try the open source radeonhd too. These two drivers support the
>> PowerPlay tech. from ATI which regulates the GPU clock and the GPU's
>> memory clock in order to reduce power consumption and get the GPU to
>> dissipate less heat.
>>
>> Hope it helps,
>> Ilyes Gouta.
>>
>> On Tue, Jul 14, 2009 at 9:05 PM, Ryan Gandy<mica1884 at gmail.com> wrote:
>> > Ack, never mind that.  What am I thinking.
>> >
>> > Could always check
>> > http://memebeam.org/toys/ExperimentalToshibaAcpiDriver out and see if
>> > it works.
>> >
>> > On 7/14/09, Ryan Gandy <mica1884 at gmail.com> wrote:
>> >> Neither the newest versions of cpufreqd nor the omnibook module seem
>> >> to want to compile, and with the acpi_osi="Linux" trick found in that
>> >> blogspot link the lappy started up with a huge blast of hot air out
>> >> the side and a bunch of commotion.  Don't reckon the BIOS liked it too
>> >> much.
>> >>
>> >> Going to apt-rpm and try installing omnibook that way.  I'll post any
>> >> progress.
>> >>
>> >> On 7/14/09, SILVIU VLAD-NICULESCU <sivl at yahoo.com> wrote:
>> >>> Hi,
>> >>> The latest Omnibook module is located here
>> >>> http://packages.kirya.net/debian/pool/main/o/omnibook/ . For my
>> Toshiba
>> >>> Satellite L300-1AM didn't work correct, after I shutdown, the computer
>> >>> started by itself. So I'm using the solution you can find here:
>> >>>
>> http://swinky-linuxblog.blogspot.com/2009/05/ubuntu-904-on-toshiba-satellite-l305.html
>> >>> .
>> >>> I'm running a dual-boot system, winVista / Ubuntu 9.04. But last time
>> when
>> >>> I
>> >>> used win was two month ago. I'm happy with linux now.
>> >>> Cheers,
>> >>>
>> >>> Silviu
>> >>> --- On Mon, 7/13/09, Ryan Gandy <mica1884 at gmail.com> wrote:
>> >>>
>> >>> From: Ryan Gandy <mica1884 at gmail.com>
>> >>> Subject: [tlinux-users 00359] Toshiba Satellite A215-S5818 running
>> Fedora
>> >>> Core 11 64 bit, very  concerned for CPU fan
>> >>> To: tlinux-users at ml.toshiba-dme.co.jp
>> >>> Date: Monday, July 13, 2009, 10:01 PM
>> >>>
>> >>> I deleted Windows Vista to install FC11 about five days ago but haven't
>> >>> used
>> >>> it much, if at all, since then.  The reason is, my 64 bit operating
>> >>> system
>> >>> doesn't seem to work too well with the CPU fan - I've tried everything
>> >>> from
>> >>> "toshset," which won't work owing to the laptop's Phoenix BIOS, to
>> >>> cpufreq_set which tells me my CPU is "wrong, unknown or unhandled," to
>> >>> setting the computer on "powersave" at all times.  Nothing's worked,
>> and
>> >>> I've been getting temperatures of just over 70 C on both CPU's doing
>> >>> simple
>> >>> tasks.  I'm looking for a last ditch solution in the form of - possibly
>> -
>> >>> the omnibook module located at
>> >>> https://omnibook.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/omnibook/omnibook/trunk/.
>> >>> Anything that can solve this problem will be appreciated, because I
>> >>> haven't
>> >>> gotten any decent help from the Linux community on this as of yet.  I
>> >>> never
>> >>> thought I'd want to go back to Vista but this is too much.  Ideas?
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