Yes, I did get you a bit wrong. I'd have shut up if I understood what
your question was! :-) . Thinking about it though, there are variables. Have
you asked this one of the kernel gurus? There may be an adjustment somewhere
.....probably EXTREMELY well hidden - as usual :-(. The op system has to make a
difference; It can't be all BIOS or else linux would be the same as m$. That
might be part of the APM stuff (You did read all that?) - I stopped APMD
in my laptop, and neutered the BIOS - every time I press 'Return' it died for
30 seconds while the hard disk speeded up, and every time I tried to read
something, something switched the screen off! And that's supposed to be
progress >:-(
On Mon, 31 Jan 2000, B Mohrgan Pratten wrote:
> I appreciate your response Declan, but you have slightly misunderstood,
> my fault no doubt.
>
> The fan works fine, and is practically new. What I notice is that when
> I use MS to watch a DVD that the computer stays much cooler and that the
> fan is used more often than it is when working with the computer under
> Linux. I find that the keyboard gets rather warm, the part that is
> right above the CPU, under linux. I am hoping that I can get the fan to
> turn on more often under linux to try and keep the CPU and memory a
> little cooler. I do not notice any system degradation as the system
> heats up, I just assume that it (I) would be happier if it did not get
> quite so hot. The fan dose turn on under linux just not so often.
>
> I suppose there is a chance that the fan is controlled by the BIOS, but
> if this were the case I would suspect that it would function the same
> under Linux or the DVD os (MS).
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Regards,
Declan Moriarty
