thermal issues

Michael Collette metrol at metrol.net
Sat Jun 14 23:02:20 PDT 2003


M. Warner Losh wrote:

> If you are running the latest acpi code, you'd recommend that you keep
> an eye on the temperature of your laptop.  I was building mozilla
> unattended and had a small thermal incident with my FIVA.  Granted,
> the lid was closed, and the small rubber feet on the bottom that are
> supposed to allow for some minor airflow have worn away over the
> years, but this seems a little excessive :-(.

Personally, I'd file a Bugzilla report on it.  Sounds like Mozilla can now be 
attributed to an honest to gosh system meltdown to compile it!

Later on,
-- 
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Then do it."
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