[ltp] Temperatures for fan ON (T41)

[Alejandro Sobrino Beltrán]

Hi,

I've got a T41 2373-2GG with Debian Unstable on it. I have almost
always the fan on, and I would like to know if this happens to others
with a system like mine.

I've a friend with a R40 and a 1,5GHz centrino and Ati's 7500 radeon
(just like me) and he just gets the fan on when compiling the kernel
or doing heavy cpu usage stuff (zsnes r0x for that :-)). The only
difference is ram... he has 512, while I continue having 256 MB (I
know, I know... I have to go to crucial.com :-D).

I have a 2.6.9 + swsusp2 patches, cpudyn and laptop-mode running. A
few weeks ago, I enabled the DynamicClocks option in my XF86Config-4
after applying the patch and compiling the current XFree86 version
from Debian Unstable.

With ibm-acpi I can see the temperatures:
temperatures:   35 40 25 41 28 -128 24 -128
fan_speed:      2973
fan_offset:     0x84
commands:       fan_offset <offset> (<offset> is 0x00-0xff)

With those temperatures should the fan be on? I doesn't botter me a
lot, but I would like to know why it's on :? I've seen people on this
list with the ibm-acpi thermal output and with the fan on, but they
had the GPU (it's the 4th column, isn't it?) at least 70º.

Ahps, and with 'vmstat 3' I can see that I don't have a heavy I/O from the hdd:

procs -----------memory---------- ---swap-- -----io---- --system-- ----cpu----
 r  b   swpd   free   buff  cache   si   so    bi    bo   in    cs us sy id wa
 0  0   1036   1496  10948 133104    0    0    42    17 1137   567  4  1 94  1
 0  0   1036   1512  10948 133104    0    0     0     0 1063   391  1  0 99  0
 0  0   1036   1512  10948 133104    0    0     0     0 1062   415  0  0 99  0
 0  0   1036   1512  10948 133104    0    0     0     0 1062   400  1  0 99  0
 0  0   1036   1512  10948 133104    0    0     0     0 1160   477  1  1 98  0
 0  0   1036   1512  10948 133104    0    0     0     0 1308   549  2  1 97  0

So... any clues? :-D Again, if somebody has a T4x and can post their
temps - fan on/off so I could compare...

If you need more info, let me know.

Thanks for all.

-- 
Jander - Alejandro Sobrino Beltrán
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