-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Sheer El-Showk wrote: > I just ran 2.6.20 with a patched ati 8.34.8 driver (don't have the > link handy) but when i tried to suspend using the suspend option on > shutdown the machine suspended and wouldn't come back to life. Maybe > I should have just tried to close the lid. > > There were a few other things that did not seem to work spectacularly > well. The trackpad is pretty good, a little better (maybe) than it > used to be, but still not as good as in OS X, particularly when it > comes to two finger scrolling. What are others' experience with this. > > The main annoying point is the fans. They seem to run constantly > while i can just that my CPU temperatures are never very high. Today > in OS X my CPUs got up to 60+ and the fans never went above 2000 rpms > whereas in Linux they rush up to 3000 or 4000 the moment the CPU gets > active. Is there some way to change this behaviour? It would be good > to gather some data from OS X to figure out what the safety margins > are and control how often the fans start up. Anyone know a tool that > can plot/store fan vs temperature data in OS X?
The fans are controlled by the SMC (i.e. by the hardware). I'm almost certain OS X doesn't change anything about the behaviour of the chip. I think the fans run slower on OS X because the power management is better, that's all. Also note that I don't think the SMC uses the temperature sensors that are in the processor (i.e. coretemp in Linux), but it uses other sensors, with different temperature readings. Best regards, Nicolas -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.3 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFGCgxn01ajQnpJXgERAhtEAJ9Z1BIrFWTPhdKkON40tNVK8M4MSACfUhOL vfjB6D25rn6rHdqLfjQTMHM= =sD0o -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys-and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ Mactel-linux-users mailing list Mactel-linux-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/mactel-linux-users
