Hey On my old HP nc8000 the fan speed was inaccessible through the OS. It would power up (and make a lot of noise) only on really high loads and the laptop would still get pretty hot. I had to use the powersaved daemon to (automatically) throttle the CPU freq when not needed.
AFAIK this is the correct way to keep the temp down on laptops. Temps > 50c are normal on high load situations. My current Dell (xps m1530) could boil an egg when running 100%. One more thing. After 3 years of continuous usage, my nc8000 cpu's airflow got blocked by a big solid pile of dirt. This resulted in extremely high temps (even the keyboard was burning). Don't forget to check yours for dust and dirt! Alex On Tue, May 20, 2008 at 9:25 PM, Boaz Rymland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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. > > > -- | | Alex Alexander | http://linuxized.blogspot.com | http://www.nerd.gr \
