On Mon, 2002-09-16 at 22:48, Vincent Beffara wrote: > > I'm the happy owner of a TiBook DVI, and after the usual X11 config > stuff I had no problem running Debian on it. > > And yesterday I rsync'ed a new benh kernel, compiled it and booted it : > it works fine except that now the fan _never_ stops, where with the > previous kernel it only started while running some heavy simulation or > watching DVDs.
In my experience the graphics chip and display produce quite a lot of heat. The environment also seems to matter. Sometimes it stays on almost constantly here, sometimes it stays off mostly. -- Earthling Michel D�nzer (MrCooper)/ Debian GNU/Linux (powerpc) developer XFree86 and DRI project member / CS student, Free Software enthusiast
