[ltp] ACPI on R50. When should the fan turn on?

Frederik Wagner linux-thinkpad@linux-thinkpad.org
Mon, 28 Jun 2004 18:17:13 +0200


On Mon, 28 Jun 2004 17:10:42 +0200
Markus Nospers <markus@nospers.de> wrote:

> I own a T40 with Gentoo on it with Kernel 2.6.7 (acpi) and i've the 
> problem, that the fan turns on at about 40
> degree an never turns off (perhaps it would turn off below 40, but this 
> i never reach).
> I didn't find anything in a config file nor in the bios to set the 
> temperatures for the fan?
> Any ideas?

My fan doesn't turn off even around 35 degree. So it's the typical problem with T4x/R5x... You won't find any configurational possibility to influence that...

Bye, Frederik!