Warning about arch and laptops

[Krishnakant Mane]

Ah,
This is sad news indeed.
I was just planning to use it on my laptop today!
Happy hacking.
Krishnakant.

On 02/05/11 05:45, Cheryl Ann Homiak wrote:
> It appears that arch doesn't install laptop-specific tools and 
> management during the install. There are laptop articles on the wiki 
> if you do a gogle search; This is making me have some doubts about 
> arch; I suppose that once you set it up correctly it's fine but you do 
> have to figure out and read a lot to set it up. The reason this came 
> to my attention was that it seemed to me my fans were running alot and 
> I tried to do acpi -t to get the temperature and was told "command not 
> found". I have to admit this is giving me second thoughts but I'm 
> going to try to figure things out for both of my laptops rather than 
> dump out the baby with the bath water.
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