From owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jun 19 08:48:26 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AE3C437B401 for ; Thu, 19 Jun 2003 08:48:26 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail.linuxcare.com (mail.linuxcare.com [216.88.157.164]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 491EA43F3F for ; Thu, 19 Jun 2003 08:48:26 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from bill@linuxcare.com) Received: from linuxcare.com (yoga.i.linuxcare.com [10.1.1.5]) by mail.linuxcare.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 006548FE49; Thu, 19 Jun 2003 08:34:37 -0700 (PDT) Sender: wiliweld@linuxcare.com Message-ID: <3EF1DA98.F863177E@linuxcare.com> Date: Thu, 19 Jun 2003 08:45:28 -0700 From: Bill Schoolcraft Organization: "LINUX, A Way of Life." X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.79 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.4.20-usb i686) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Tobias Roth References: <20030619135330.GA10492@speedy.unibe.ch> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: mobile@freebsd.org Subject: Re: IBM T30: more thermal problems X-BeenThere: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Mobile computing with FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 19 Jun 2003 15:48:27 -0000 Tobias Roth wrote: > > Hi > > The days are getting hotter and my T30 coredumps more and more. I get > the usual sig4 and sig11 during buildworlds, which are strong indicators > of hardware problems. I have a T30 here and it was getting real hot and it cooled down in what seems like about 50% by elevating the laptop up by a 1/2" on all four corners. The hot air exhaust cooled down in about 90 seconds. I feel laptops like this should have "lifts" on all four corners that fold in and out like the lifts on keyboards. This is not the first time I've had to do this. In a rush I just grab 4 packages of 3x3 (inch) postit notes and slip one package under each corner of the laptop. -- Bill Schoolcraft Linuxcare Client Services 650 Townsend Street San Francisco, CA 94103 +1.415.354.4878 http://www.linuxcare.com _ _ | | _____ ____ _ _ __ | |_ __ _ | | / _ \ \ / / _` | '_ \| __/ _` | | |__| __/\ V / (_| | | | | || (_| | |_____\___| \_/ \__,_|_| |_|\__\__,_| by Linuxcare "Simplifying Server Consolidation"