[SPARCbook] Me and my sparcbook ...

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David,

Upgrade to a 2.3 or 2.4 kernel, it uses a different idle loop and will run MUCH
cooler. My 3GX has been up for 50 days on RedHat 6.1 with a 2.4 kernel and is
only slightly warm. With the lcd on all of the time.

Later,

Tom Roehr
troehr at nj-onramp.com

Quoting David Cantrell <david at cantrell.org.uk>:

> On Thu, Sep 27, 2001 at 10:58:01PM -0400, Ken Hansen wrote:
> > From: "David Cantrell" <david at cantrell.org.uk>
> > > As some of you will know, my mail and web server is an SS2.  Or
> rather,
> > > it *was* an SS2 until recently, when the magic smoke escaped.  Not
> having
> > > anything else to hand to replace it quickly, I used my 3gx.  It's
> doing
> > > a fantastic job :-)
> > An SS/5-110 w/64 Megs or RAM is a very serviceable machine...
> 
> Heh.  The only problem I have is that the heat those things reach is
> worrying me.  I'm leaving it open and will put a fan blowing down onto
> the keyboard and hope that helps.
> 
> BTW, I'm running Debian-stable on it, with a 2.2 kernel.  Anyone know
> how to turn the screen off?  running the LCD screen 24 hours a day
> can't
> be doing it any good.
> 
> I will replace it with a regular machine sometime, but am a tad short
> of cash riht now.
> 
> -- 
> David Cantrell | david at cantrell.org.uk |
> http://www.cantrell.org.uk/david
> 
>   Vegetables are what food eats
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