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   From: "Doug Bissett"    
      
   On Fri, 31 Dec 2010 22:43:02 UTC, Thorolf Godawa    
    wrote:   
      
   > Hi,   
   >    
   > > I've got an old T43p  (2669H2U) that I've installed eCS V2.0 GA on.   
   > if you install eCS 2.0 with the default-settings, it will install the   
   > buggy and unfinished ACPI-driver on your system, even if it still   
   > supports the legacy IBM APM-driver like the ThinkPad t40-series do.   
      
   Not all T-40 series ThinkPads will support APM. My T43 (1871-W8M) does   
   not support APM. ACPI 3.18 does work to some extent, but it does    
   require a third party program to use throttling, and speed control, to   
   keep the temperature down.   
      
   FWIW, I don't think that would be the OP's problem, unless he is    
   trying to use the system in a very warm room (or outdoors on a hot    
   day). Air flow is easily checked, and, when using ACPI, you can use    
   the Reactor temperature widget to watch what the system temperature is   
   doing.  My T43 will run at about 70C, with no throttling, or speed    
   control.    
      
   I have written an experimental program (in REXX), which seems to work    
   well at keeping the temperature around 45C, as long as there are no    
   CPU intensive programs running for more than a few minutes.    
   Unfortunately, it doesn't work on very many machines, and the buggy    
   ACPI implementation can cause trouble. It does, however, work pretty    
   good on my 1871-W8M, and one other user has had good success on a    
   2669. It doesn't work very good on my new Lenovo ThinkPad T510    
   (4313-CTO), but neither does ACPI. I think I can get my REXX to work,    
   but it could be some ugly workarounds for some really bad information    
   returned by the SETGETTHRTL program.   
      
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