Hi, I'll just take the liberty of posting this to the list. Regards, Anders Breindahl.
On Thursday 18 November 2004 21:43, Stephan Ohl wrote: > Anders Breindahl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> schrieb am 18.11.04 17:51:26: > > It could be a question of cpufreq-regulations not working or not being > enabled. See if your CPU frequency alters (`cat /proc/cpuinfo'), when you > run the command: `cat /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/cpufreq/cpuinfo_min_freq > > > /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/cpufreq/scaling_setspeed' > > (or something like that - poke around). > ... Assuming that a modern (Centrino) notebook does hold the CPU > temperature together with the fan speed at BIOS-level. Not knowing how > helpful it may be; it /is/ an idea. > > Regards, Anders Breindahl. > > On Thursday 18 November 2004 15:21, Stephan Ohl wrote: > > Hi > > I have installed debian sarge on my Fujitsu-Siemens AMILO 1420 notebook. > > The fan makes a lot of noise and I have no idea how to slow down speed or > > how to stop the fan. I am not even sure if it is possible at all. I > > loaded the ACPI modules, but there are no entries under /proc/acpi/fan > > and /proc/acpi/thermal_zone. Is there no support by my hardware for > > controlling this? > > Any ideas? > > Hello! > > The file /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/cpufreq/cpuinfo_min_freq doesn't > exists. The whole directory .../cpu/cpu0 is empty. > I found some modules called cpufreq and loaded them. Now the fan seems > to stop more often, but it still starts every three minutes to run ... > well, every minute ... aaah. Maybe its normal :-). > > Never buy a AMILO 1420 notebook! Even in Windows they make a lot of noise > and the people from Fujitsu-Siemens computers told me thats because I have > bought a consumer notebook, Lifebooks are much better, *argh. Even more > funny is that if you put pressure on the laptop, for example while writing, > the sound of the fan changes and even that is - according to > Fujitsu-Siemens - normal! > > Nevertheless, thanks a lot > Stephan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
