Laptop ACPI hangs[Scanned]

[Arif Ali]

Hi List,

I was wandering if no-one answer my questions here, who/which list 
should I contact to get my problem fixed?

thanks

Arif Ali
Software Engineer
OCF plc
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Arif Ali wrote:
> Hi list,
>
> I have been using Fedora on my Laptop since Fedora Core 1 came out. I 
> am currently running FC5 with 2.6.15-1.1833_FC4 kernel.
>
> Recently with FC4 and FC5 the kernels newer than 2.6.15-1.1833_FC4 
> seem not to work my laptop. I have googled around with no luck.
>
> The last message I see is
>
> ACPI: Subsystem revision 20060127
>
> with the latest kernel from FC5 (kernel-2.6.16-1.2080_FC5). and after 
> about 20 seconds the Fans speed up very heavily, and stays there.
>
> I have tried the noacpi option, but then this takes out all the acpi 
> options which I would like to keep :).
>
> I was wandering if anyone else out has had these poblems, and if yes, 
> how they have fixed it
>
> thanks,
>