Re: controlling CPU's fan speed

2008-05-21 Thread Alex Alexander
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

Re: controlling CPU's fan speed

2008-05-21 Thread Boaz Rymland
Hi, Thanks for the reply. I didn't mentioned it verbosely but its a desktop machine, not a laptop. I'm not sure it means too much but I can add that when powering up the machine I do hear the FAN running at high speed but when it gets to OS loading phase it gets calmed down - for good until the

controlling CPU's fan speed

2008-05-20 Thread Boaz Rymland
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