Re: [SOLVED] Re: wireless (Atheros AR5001) was working on squeeze, then stopped

2010-07-02 Thread Brian C. Wells
On Wed, 2010-06-30 at 22:28 +0200, Klistvud wrote: > Dne, 30. 06. 2010 20:51:08 je Brian C. Wells napisal(a): > > > Or did some key combo I pressed somehow disable it? > > You betcha. Most notebooks have such key combos (or even dedicated > keys), and HPs are no except

[SOLVED] Re: wireless (Atheros AR5001) was working on squeeze, then stopped

2010-06-30 Thread Brian C. Wells
On Wed, 2010-06-30 at 07:28 +0100, Berni Elbourn wrote: > Brian C. Wells wrote: > > Hi. I have an HP G60-249WM laptop, and am currently using squeeze for > > better wireless support. (The latest kernel from backports might also > > work; but after trying that, I can say it d

wireless (Atheros AR5001) was working on squeeze, then stopped

2010-06-29 Thread Brian C. Wells
Hi. I have an HP G60-249WM laptop, and am currently using squeeze for better wireless support. (The latest kernel from backports might also work; but after trying that, I can say it doesn't play well with the non-free nvidia driver, which I also need.) After "upgrading" to squeeze, and updating m

Re: HP G60-249WM Notebook overheats (on lenny)

2009-11-02 Thread Brian C. Wells
On Fri, 2009-10-30 at 21:05 -1000, Joel Roth wrote: > On Wed, Oct 28, 2009 at 04:47:55PM -0700, Brian C. Wells wrote: > > Vacuuming brought the idle temperature down by 5C. sauerbraten now runs > > great at about 80C, but glchess/gnuchess still gets up to 95C or more! > >

Re: HP G60-249WM Notebook overheats (on lenny)

2009-10-28 Thread Brian C. Wells
On Tue, 2009-10-27 at 19:30 -0700, Brian C. Wells wrote: [...] > I also want to apologize for taking 4 days to respond. I thought it > would be best to wait until I had tried using the vacuum, but still > haven't gotten around to it. I don't have carpeted floors where I live

Re: HP G60-249WM Notebook overheats (on lenny)

2009-10-27 Thread Brian C. Wells
On Tue, 2009-10-27 at 07:49 +, marc wrote: > Brian C. Wells wrote: > > > Hi. My HP G60-249WM Notebook's CPU is overheating, to the point that it > > shuts itself off, whenever I use any CPU-intensive game such as glchess > > (in the gnome-games package) or the

Re: HP G60-249WM Notebook overheats (on lenny)

2009-10-27 Thread Brian C. Wells
On Sun, 2009-10-25 at 00:34 +0200, Klistvud wrote: > Well, the script is quite simple, it only works in Gnome (a > more system-wide script would have to be run as superuser and I just > couldn't be bothered to type in my root password every time I wanted to > change CPU governor): > >

Re: HP G60-249WM Notebook overheats (on lenny)

2009-10-24 Thread Brian C. Wells
On Sat, 2009-10-24 at 10:35 +0200, Klistvud wrote: > Dne, 24. 10. 2009 05:40:01 je Brian C. Wells napisal(a): > > On Fri, 2009-10-23 at 21:15 -0400, Stefan Monnier wrote: > > > > evidence that the CPU's temperature is increasing to dangerous > > levels > >

Re: HP G60-249WM Notebook overheats (on lenny)

2009-10-24 Thread Brian C. Wells
On Fri, 2009-10-23 at 22:19 -0700, Raquel wrote: > On Fri, 23 Oct 2009 20:40:01 -0700 > "Brian C. Wells" wrote: > > > > > I don't -think- it's a fan problem. It seems to be blowing plenty > > of hot air out, and I can't see or blow out any

Re: HP G60-249WM Notebook overheats (on lenny)

2009-10-23 Thread Brian C. Wells
On Fri, 2009-10-23 at 21:15 -0400, Stefan Monnier wrote: > > evidence that the CPU's temperature is increasing to dangerous levels > > (>95 deg. Celsius). As soon as I start a game, it rises, and as soon as > > I stop it it falls. > > Sounds like a hardware problem; most likely a fan problem: eit

HP G60-249WM Notebook overheats (on lenny)

2009-10-23 Thread Brian C. Wells
Hi. My HP G60-249WM Notebook's CPU is overheating, to the point that it shuts itself off, whenever I use any CPU-intensive game such as glchess (in the gnome-games package) or the non-free game sauerbraten. I also use the non-free nvidia-glx for accelerated graphics, and have the laptop software