Hi Dan, On Thursday 02 December 2004 16:49, Dan Davison wrote: > I have a year-old laptop with a pentium 4, running Debian testing with > kernel 2.6.6. After an initial 5 minutes of calm after booting, the > cooling fan comes on and remains on in a state of relatively high > activity; it is very noisy). > > Oddly, for the last two weeks, it worked every day in quiet or inactive > fan states, unless given something very processor-intensive to do. I was > using the /proc/acpi/processor interface to throttle down the processor > when I didn't need high speed and this certainly has the effect of > reducing performance. It was my impression that it also helped reduce the > fan activity during the two-week "quiet spell". However it's now back to > its vacuum-cleaner sort of level of noise (after the initial 5 minutes > after boot), and throttling the processor right down to minimum seems to > have no effect on the fan activity, although it still controls > performance.
As you seem to be able to access acpi correctly, i would suggest to use a tool like cpufreqd or cpudyn to automatically increase/lower performance. It works quite fine here on my laptop and keeps the cpu at a moderate temperature. Maybe that helps to keep the fan inactive. Hth, Cheers, Dirk -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
