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post #21 of 38
5/25/05 at 2:11pm
Hi,
mine is also running well, but ACPI: temperature sensor and suspend dont work for me.
In Finland it is sold by name D-Code. Afaik it is only sold in www.tietoasema.fi , but that site is only in finnish.
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post #22 of 38
5/26/05 at 10:50am
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Originally Posted by Lake-end
Hi,
www.tietoasema.fi , but that site is only in finnish.
It doesn't scare me, I am from Estonia!

Thanks for the info. Good to know what the neighbours have!
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post #23 of 38
5/30/05 at 8:12am
Hey Ivar, got your lappy back yet?
Anyone have that CPU temperature reading working in linux? ANYONE?
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post #24 of 38
6/2/05 at 4:34pm
Hi Lake-end!
I got it back. They just sent me another one.
The keyboard is much better but the fan is loud.

Under Ubuntu I get:
#acpi -V
Thermal 1: ok, 11.0 degrees C
Ac Adapter 1: on-line

???
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post #25 of 38
6/2/05 at 9:08pm
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Originally Posted by lenk
/dev/hda1 20GB NTFS winxp
/dev/hda2 512MB ext2 linux boot partition
/dev/hda3 1GB linux swap partition
/dev/hda4 18GB reiserfs4 root partition
/dev/hda5 540MB powercinema partition
Lenk, out of curiousity, what in the world did you need a 512MB boot partition for? I've got a 32MB one and have 16 kernel images sitting on it!

Also, there is no way you need a 1GB swap partition. Sure, most guides would even suggest 2GB if you have 1GB of RAM, but to tell you the truth, its absolutely useless. You'll just be wasting your valueable disk space. I have a GB of RAM and only reserved 512MB for swap. Guess what, I've never seen my machine touch more than 2MB of it, and that was when I opened an enormous file in vim (vim loaded the entire file into memory).

Mikhail
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post #26 of 38
6/3/05 at 4:07am
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Originally Posted by ivar
Hi Lake-end!
I got it back. They just sent me another one.
The keyboard is much better but the fan is loud.

Under Ubuntu I get:
#acpi -V
Thermal 1: ok, 11.0 degrees C
Ac Adapter 1: on-line

???
Hey Ivar. Yeah you got the same problem with the sensor, it shows constant 11 degreec celsius and nothing else. Make sure to tell me if you manage to fix that somehow and I promise to tell you if I find a fix.
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post #27 of 38
6/3/05 at 4:09am
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Originally Posted by mmarkin
Lenk, out of curiousity, what in the world did you need a 512MB boot partition for? I've got a 32MB one and have 16 kernel images sitting on it!

Also, there is no way you need a 1GB swap partition. Sure, most guides would even suggest 2GB if you have 1GB of RAM, but to tell you the truth, its absolutely useless. You'll just be wasting your valueable disk space. I have a GB of RAM and only reserved 512MB for swap. Guess what, I've never seen my machine touch more than 2MB of it, and that was when I opened an enormous file in vim (vim loaded the entire file into memory).

Mikhail
One needs more swap than RAM in that situation when computer is suspended to disk. I think it is possible to define some other place also, but most(?) people use their swap as a storing place.
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post #28 of 38
6/3/05 at 9:00pm
Good point (I never use suspend/hybernate) but it is sort of an odd thing to do - might as well just borrow room from your root partition when you suspend to disk.
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post #29 of 38
6/9/05 at 2:24am
too bad: /proc/acpi/thermal_zone/THRM/temperature shows 11°C nonsense
and /proc/acpi/fan/ is empty ...
What one can do to silence the fan?
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post #30 of 38
6/28/05 at 10:25am
Hey ivar, does your fan run non-stop? Mine is pretty quiet, and occasionally makes some louder noise, but nothing really that irritating. I'm using Suse 9.3, maybe that makes a difference.
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post #31 of 38
7/28/05 at 12:49am
hi guys. I have a 223ii0 too running SuSE 9.3 and yes the fan is always running all the time. there are many shops here selling it in the philippines. by the way, at first i thought that PowerCinema is embedded into certain chip thus not using other devices but i was disappointed at the same time fascinated because it was linux running. so i now i have this idea of using the PowerCinema button into a Linux OS button. anyone have an idea how?so far i did manage to put SuSE in the same partition order of PwerCinema but it seems i need to configure it since it doesn't work.
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post #32 of 38
7/29/05 at 8:01pm
My impression is that it will not work because P button boots to a 500MB partition. I think this ammount is fixed (in BUOS??).
Unless, you want to run smth like Damn Small Linux (DSL) with a small home directory ...

It's just my impression, I am not a linux or computers expert.
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post #33 of 38
7/30/05 at 12:27pm
I beg to disagree. I think the P button is not dependent on the space occupied by the partition but rather the partition itself. Too bad i'm not a Linux expert myself just an enthusiast.
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post #34 of 38
7/30/05 at 9:08pm
BTW, when I test installed SUSE 9.3 the fan was not always on. It was running more or less the same as under windows: under the low processor load (600MHz) it was turning on every
12-15 mins for 2-5 mins depending on how hot the computer was. With new BIOS 1.10 it was possible to figure out that the fan turns on at 55°C and off at 50°C. However, I also observed some exceptions from this rule which I cannot explain.

Under windows when I was measuring the temperatures using mobile meter the temperature dependence of the fan activity (even at low processor load) was not obvious. Probably mobile meter is not showing the temperatures correctly (one of the evidences is that when I start some application which needs more processor speed to start, the temperature suddenly jumps for several °C and the fan turns on).

Try to ask people on uniwill.com/forums. The linux thread is rather dead there but maybe someone will respond to you. I am also interested in the discussion running.
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post #35 of 38
8/5/05 at 10:43pm
there's a new bios update?gotta check uniwill website...
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post #36 of 38
11/20/05 at 1:27pm
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Originally Posted by ivar
My impression is that it will not work because P button boots to a 500MB partition. I think this ammount is fixed (in BUOS??).
Unless, you want to run smth like Damn Small Linux (DSL) with a small home directory ...

It's just my impression, I am not a linux or computers expert.

¿do you mean that with 'P Button' system will boot the SECOND bootable partition? It will be great.
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post #37 of 38
4/10/06 at 2:34pm
The P button allows you to boot to a 4th partition that comes with a small linux distro installed so it can run cyberlink powerdvd. it's supposed to let you watch DVDs without having to boot into Windows. It does pretty much what those new HPs do, but the uniwill laptops had that feature first.
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post #38 of 38
4/10/06 at 5:24pm
emtshea ... welcome to last year!
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