I have a Probook 4510s and a similar problem. One thing you can try doing is going into your bios and disabling the "fans always on while on AC power" option..did not work for me, but could work for you :)
On Mon, Nov 7, 2011 at 12:45 AM, Alexandre FRIEDMANN <alefri...@gmail.com>wrote: > Hello folks. > > I 've been on lesswatts.org, trying to fix an issue that makes my fans > always on (hp probook 4530s / i5 / ubuntu 11.10). > I am not sure about what is going on, if my power consumption is ok, and > it's my fan control that is bad, or if it is the opposite ... > > The first entries of my powertop overview list : > > Power est. Usage Events/s Category Description > 3.52 W 100,0% Device Radio device: ath9k > 2.38 W 100,0% Device Audio codec hwC0D3: > Intel > 651 mW 100,0% Device Display backlight > 651 mW 100,0% Device Display backlight > 651 mW 100,0% Device Display backlight > 17.3 mW 50,8 ms/s 0,0 Process > /usr/lib/thunderbird-7.0.1/**thunderbird-bin > 13.7 mW 40,3 ms/s 0,0 kWork > input_polled_device_work > 12.8 mW 37,6 ms/s 0,0 Process compiz > > I did not managed to activate the power_saving mode of the wifi radio, > following the tutorial. > Also, i was wondering how this intel codec could consume so much ...? what > should i do with it ? > > After googling my problem of fans a bit of time, i've read that there has > been a linux kernel regression regarding these aspects of power > consumption... i find it hard to accept that there is no other solution > that waiting for fixes & I would like to understand better those aspects. > > What do you think about that ? > > thanks, > > ______________________________**_________________ > Discuss mailing list > Discuss@lesswatts.org > http://lists.lesswatts.org/**listinfo/discuss<http://lists.lesswatts.org/listinfo/discuss> >
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