Posts by gentoowally

is 03.07.128 the current BIOS version for the 8887? Thx, gentoo

yes I have eveything compiled in and am using the 2.6 kernel. Where do you see cpu temp and fan state?

i'm trying to monitor fan speed and cpu temp...was going to use gkrellm2 with acpi but gkacpi2-.4 seg faults and the .5 from 'emerge gkacpi' only shows battery life. acpi is not showing anything in /proc/acpi/fan/ or ...

has anone goten lm_sensors to work under the 2.4 or 2.6 kernel? The linux install guide says... "The SMBus is the hardware sensors bus, this is were the sensors of your motherboards reports to, like temperature, fans states,...

hmmm...i can't get either www.omegacorner.com or... www.driverheaven.net to open. anyone else having this problem? Know of a different site to DL the new omega drivers? gentoowally

That was my first thought also. i tried that but the problem persists. I would have to say that i'm not overly pleased with the 8887. I've used a half dozen os's on this thing and all ahve displaied wirerd hardware issues. this...

Hi, I seem to have a problem with my 8887. If i shutdown (from either xp or linux) when I go to power on again my laptop hangs at "Auto Detecting IDE Devices[DONE]" If I power off and power on again it will usually boot...

setting the radeon driver to module worked. both vga=775 and boot logo work now. Time to try out the bootsplash! wally

Has anyone gotten the boot logo to work with a ati readon 9000 mobility? I can't seem to get the thing to appear. Here is my .config stuff... CONFIG_MTRR=y # # Console drivers # CONFIG_VGA_CONSOLE=y CONFIG_VIDEO_SELECT=y # #...

I'm not touching that thing 'til I know exactly what this update fixes and a few people (who are braver than me) try this thing out. Last thing I need right now is to fry the bios on my new laptop. *cring* wally