On Monday 01 November 2004 01:34, Rui Silva wrote: > on KDE there's an application that control several things from vaio > computers. i don't know if there's something like it for gnome. > > under de KDE control center -> System Administration -> Sony Vaio Laptop. > > I don't know if this solve your problem, but it's worth to try. > > there must be an app that control the fan. when I recompiled the kernel, I > remember to see something regarding that. since pentium mobile processors > can be more or less powerfull depending of the use (I don't remeber the > technical term for that). if your using a generic kernel, you should think > about recompiling your kernel to your machine. If you need help for that > just ask... I'd remember the name : CPU Frequency scaling. the less the frequency, the less rpm the fan does..
> On Monday 01 November 2004 01:19, Cesar Mu�oz Palomino wrote: > > With my computer, when it is turned on, there will be a loud whirring > > noise during the BIOS loading and when Windows starts loading. But when i > > get to the login screen for Windows, the whirring stops. While running > > linux (Debian, Red Hat, Suse, Knoppic, etc), however, the whirring never > > stops and continues until i shut off the computer. > > > > The whirring noise i later found was the fan. Does anybody know how to > > remedy this problem? Thank you! > > > > My computer is Sony Vaio DESKTOP. -- Rui Silva [EMAIL PROTECTED] Debian GNU/Linux
