On Sat, 9 Aug 2003, Sander van Geloven wrote: > > > Pander wrote: > > > > > > > Wolfgang Pfeiffer wrote: > > > >> On Fri, 18 Jul 2003, Pander wrote: > >> > >> > >> > >>> My guess is that the fan isn't on as often as it is in OSX, I don't > >>> know > >>> where the control for this is. > >>> > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> On Debian, the fan, once it starts running some minutes after booting > >> the > >> machine, never stops running until I shut down Linux. The fan's > >> running at > >> low speed, always. Contrary to Mac OS X, where fan speed is changing > >> from > >> time to time, IIRC, from "low" to "high" speed, and probably vice versa. > >> And, again IIRC, in OS X it sometimes even stops running completely for > >> some time ... > >> > >> > I just installed cpudyn, and I don't know if it is because of this or > the European heat wave, but now my powerbook start doing OSX stylish fan > control. although not in the "high" speed but more in a sort of an > unconvincing "middle" speed.
I don't have cpudyn installed, and here on a 2.4.21-ben2 I have the same nearly permanent fan middle speed as you do ... I *think* that's related to the hot summer here ... Before this weather, running the same kernel, the fan sometimes stopped completely on the running system. I check from time to time the metal case of the Powerbook G4 here ... if I think it's getting too hot I simply shut the machine down. I'm careful with this heat on my machine: <http://lists.debian.org/debian-powerpc/2002/debian-powerpc-200204/msg00651.html> Good luck, Wolfgang -- Profile, Links: http://profiles.yahoo.com/wolfgangpfeiffer
