Actually, what you are hearing may be the hard drive starting up. I think
the fan goes on at the same time. Try setting the standby and suspend
mode timeouts up. I have mine at 4 and 20 and it's great. Linux and its
ram usage is sweet because I can be typing a message or even playing quake
I've had the hard drive spin down. Windows may have it's own setting for
powerdown modes that is independent of the bios settings. I would assume
you can do that in Linux(set independently), but I haven't seen a way yet.
I just set bios control in the kernel and run apmd.
I have noticed my suspend mode is almost random as to when it
shuts the LCD off. One day I'll come back to my computer in full suspend
mode, and other days I come back after hours and it's still glowing at
me(blank, but still on). I think it's apmd, but I can't tell why. Anyone
have this happen?
On Thu, 29 Oct 1998, Matthias Wollnik wrote:
> I have an Inspirion 3200. Everything is fine under windows. However, under
> Linux the fan doesn't work correctly. It will start up when the computer
> gets hot enough, but it does not stay on the way it does under Win95. It
> just turns off after 1-10 seconds. This is very annoying since everytime
> it happens it basically stops the machine for spin up and spin down. It's
> just impossible to type that way. I do have APM compiled into the kernel.
> I also does not matter wether it's in X or not.
> Any ideas how to get it to keep the fan on the normal amount of time?
>
> Thanks,
> Matt Wollnik
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