Posts by emjay

As far as I know you can't read or control the fanspeed of a CL56 - this simply isn't implemented in the bios. Likewise for CPU temperature reading

As far as I know powerplay isn't supported by the notebook BIOS, and that's why there 's no tab. If you want to enable powerplay you will need to hack the bios or just wait for Compal to add support for powerplay in the BIOS...

Quote: Originally Posted by rincewind under general use in a quiet room i cannot hear any noise from the laptop unless i stick my ear physically right on the lappy... when my ear is right over it i can hear a lil...

Quote: Originally Posted by DarkWing Actualy I know two cl56 users (including my self ) running linux I'm definately going to try this! Did you try it ? Is it working ? If you run into problems I'll be...

I modified my DSDT ( http://acpi.sourceforge.net/dsdt/index.php ) so I can read CPU temperature on my Compal CL56. This is a little howto. First of all, as far as I know, this can only be done under Linux (I use Gentoo). If anybody has...

I upgraded my BIOS to this version and there where no problem doing it... fortunately I didn't back up my old BIOS, but that might be a good idea. I might have been lucky, and you might be unlucky, so think about the risks before...

get the bios here: ftp://sales030:sales030@ftp.compal.c...A/561_120A.zip Unzip it somewhere, boot in dos and run the BAT-file. You can get a nice bootable cd with some nice tools and option for booting in dos here:...

I doesn't seem to have problems playing this. I use Zoom player and Omega drivers 2.5.67 CL56 1.7 Dothan, 1Gb DDR, 60 GB 7200 HDD, Radeon 9700 with 128 Mb

Does anybody know what is new in the 1.20a version. I have the 1.20 and was wondering if there might be some nice changes

could someone please translate ?