Posts by hell

Have you guys checked your HDD temperature? What is that at when you're using it a lot? If you had to prop up the touchpad, I'm guessing this looks like heat related to the HDD (right hand side) or the heat being generated on the left...

@BCloud99 Full load ends up at ~65°C most of the time, sometimes (like I said rarely) to ~70°C. This is with maximum setting on the cpu scale (at 2 ghz). Forced scale to 800 mhz while compiling (100% cpu usage, gave it time to cool...

What is your idle temperature at? Mine stays at ~35°C and rarely touches ~70°C on high loads. I still think this is too hot, but not as bad as you guys or some other notebooks.

Let me correct myself from the last post. Recent reltek driver wants the Soundcore module, so be sure to add that in without alsa or oss support (it'll compile that in itself)

Well, make sure you have sound support completly disabled in the kernel or it doesn't like that.

Quote: Originally Posted by sarah.wicks still having trouble, is there anyway someone can give me an list of kernel options that are essential to pci-e? Quote: Bus options (PCI, PCMCIA, EISA, MCA,...

Quote: Originally Posted by DarKry Any chance that you are still around somewhere. I still haven't been able to get sound going and the link you posted is broken. any chance I could get a step by step on what you did to...

Quote: Originally Posted by sarah.wicks video related: Just got my sager 3880 the other day, was installing up gentoo and after everything was set, i went to install my nvidia drivers, emerge nvidia-kernel...

Just thought I'd revive this post, I don't want it to get lost. I just got my Sager 3880 last week, dead pixel free from PCtorque.com (thank you, heh). I've installed Gentoo using this short guide, and thought I should add to this a...