Hi,
I've recently discovered that on my HP Pavillion 6010a the CPU fan is most likely always running at its lowest CPU fan speed. This results in relatively high CPU temperatures - when machine is loaded (and since its running Gentoo its loaded quite a few times ;-), its reaching 70 degrees Celsius. I know this still might be in the green zone for the AMD Athlon 64 (single core) its using but I'd rather keep it in even greener area of its threshold.
I've searched the net and played with some stuff but mostly didn't find exactly the utility I'm looking for. I can use cpufrequtils to lower CPU cycles, which works ok, but why would I prefer hampering my machine's performance instead of simply pushing the fan cycles up?... .
I took a look at lm-sensors but it has a too big config file (/etc/sensors.conf) for my time constraints right now and I'm not sure it'll help.
In /proc/acpi/fan/FAN I have only "state" which when "cat"ing, prints: "status: on".
Anyone knows how to hasten the CPU speed on such a system? TIA, Boaz.
