[ltp] R51 - when will the fan turn off?

Ingo van Lil linux-thinkpad@linux-thinkpad.org
Wed, 23 Mar 2005 17:22:55 +0100


On 23 Mar 2005, Dorpm=FCller wrote:

> Now it happens that the fan at sometime starts - ok so far. But when wi=
ll he
> stop again? I though that this should happen when the temperature of th=
e CPU
> is somewhere below 60 and the temperature of the GPU is below 50?

On my R51 the fan kicks in at about 55 degrees C (which is a pretty
reasonable value), but it won't stop before the CPU is cooled down to
37 or 38 degrees. No idea why they picked that threshold so low and
whether it's possible to change that behaviour or not.

        Cheers,
            Ingo