Posts by tombruner

It never states a temperature, just a general statement about the threshold temperature. I will disassemble and clean this weekend and see how she does then. I suspect it will be very dirty as I have never cleaned it.

SuSE 9.2 installed on Sager 8887 3.06GHz processor 1GB RAM ATI 9000 VID Card w/ 128MB Ram.

After leaving my laptop on for a fey days I start receving system mail stating that the CPU is above the threshold temperature, and that it is running in "modulated clock mode" (I could be wrong about that quote, but it is...

I am trying to load onto an 8887 with no luck. How is knoppix for you guys? Is it running?

I cannot get RH9 to boot it hangs on "Checking for new hardware" I had to edit kernel params in grub kernel /vmlinuz-2.4.20-6 ro root=LABEL=/ hdc=ide-scsi nofirewire this seems to clear an earlier issue I was having...

I am new to linux, never used it or even how to use it. I am just SICK of MS.

do you recommend Suse, Red Hat or mandrake?

I just installed red hat 9. It hangs on bootup at initializing firewire controller ochi1394. Any thoughts or suggestions would be appreciated.

I need some pics to see how to get at my battery. I need to replace it.