> On Sun, 07 Oct 2007 19:21:59 +0200
>
peter@bsdly.net (Peter N. M. Hansteen) wrote:
>
> > Jona Joachim writes:
> >
> > > I can see X redraw the screen top down very slowly when I use the
> > > SMP kernel on my Thinkpad T60. I can actually see it draw the
> > > background first and then every widget one by one. I don't see this
> > > behaviour when I use GENERIC.
> >
> > It's been discussed on the list recently, the short version is that
> > you may find that enabling acpi in the MP kernel will speed up your
> > system.
> >
> > gives you the
> > main bits.
> >
> > Hope this helps,
>
> Thanks a lot, it also helped in my case!
> I was reluctant to enable acpi because the man page says it could cause
> overheating because the kernel takes thermal control from the bios but
> doesn't provide any thermal regulation functionality.
> Does my laptop risk overheating when I enable acpi?
>
> Regards,
> Jona
>
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