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  1. Bug #88899
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Comment 24 for bug 88899

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lunomad (damon-metapaso) wrote :

Rob:

I finally got a chance to do some hunting on the internet for a solution to this problem. The problem appears to be rooted in unsettable BIOS thermal tables. Downgrading to BIOS A02 appears to solve the problem, but as I run dual-screen I don't think I'll be doing this (the A02 has earlier Intel915 graphics firmware). I might try a kernel downgrade to see if the problem can be resolved with my previous kernel (I don't recall this same issue, but perhaps I just didn't notice). I used to get an error 7@1000:10000 on boot, which has disappeared. Perhaps something in there?

A whole bunch of great commentary here:

http://eightflat.org/tracesofmartinsstate/2005/06/03/linux-on-dell-x1/#comment-13235

There are two good Linux/Dell X1 sites:

http://gentoo-wiki.com/Talk:HARDWARE_Dell_Latitude_X1#CPU_down-throttling (gentoo)
http://eightflat.org/tracesofmartinsstate/ (Fedora)