I wrote my last email before seeing this response of yours. Perhaps this result of yours verifies Marios hypothesis that OS X configures the SMC at boot time and then just leaves it that way. When you say booted OS X and then returned to Linux did you mean started OS X and then rebooted into linux or switched off and then returned to Linux?
cheers, Sheer On 3/29/07, Sven Anders <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Sheer El-Showk schrieb: > > Yes, this is quite reminicent of my experience with the fans. I > > thought it might be lag on stuff that I did earlier but I'm not sure. > > Nicolas has suggested that the SMC uses additional temperature > > monitors that are not exposed by the applesmc module. Perhaps the > > machine is just somehow heating up in the background and so every ten > > minutes the fans come on to cool it down until it cools down enough > > and then they turn off until it heats up again in another 10 min, > > etc... > > For your information: > > In the meantime I booted MacOSX and returned to Linux. Now my fans are > working normally again. Not spinning up every 10 minutes but constantly > running at about 2500 rpm. > > No idea why it does work now again... > > Regards > Sven > > -- > Sven Anders <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> () Ascii Ribbon Campaign > /\ Support plain text e-mail > ANDURAS service solutions AG > Innstraße 71 - 94036 Passau - Germany > Web: www.anduras.de - Tel: +49 (0)851-4 90 50-0 - Fax: +49 (0)851-4 90 50-55 > > Rechtsform: Aktiengesellschaft - Sitz: Passau - Amtsgericht Passau HRB 6032 > Mitglieder des Vorstands: Sven Anders, Marcus Junker > Vorsitzender des Aufsichtsrats: Dipl. Kfm. Thomas Träger > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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