pcmcia eject saves power (was Re: [TriLUG] laptop on-net/off-net)

[Kevin - The Alchemist - Sonney]

On Sun, 2002-03-17 at 14:47, M. Mueller (bhu5nji) wrote:
> I looked at the ACPI kernel options for the first time.  I turned 'em all on. 
> No time like the present to start another project.  I turned APM off.  There 
> was a terse and dire warning on the ACPI-Thermal option: laptop CPU might get 
> toasted with thermal power management disabled.  I've been running for nearly 
> 8 months continuously, so I guess I'm not in that category.  THat's a pretty 
> serious warning though.  Is it a over the top or should sirens be going off 
> for all Linux Toshiba and Compaq laptop users (they are most likely to be 
> using APCI right now: http://www.acpi.info/index.html, 
> http://phobos.fs.tum.de/acpi/)?

Toshibas have a nice feature that the fan auto-cools when on AC power.
There's also a toolkit for them to turn the fan on, off & auto. SO I
don't worry about it too much. And since most of the time, if it's on
battery power, it's on my lap, I tend to notice if it's excessively warm
*grin*

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