[ltp] Fan never stops with xorg 6.9.0 on a T41p ? (Was: Debian, xserver-xorg_7.0.10 and T41p ?)

Christopher Sawtell linux-thinkpad@linux-thinkpad.org
Mon, 17 Apr 2006 20:35:02 +1200


On Monday 17 April 2006 20:29, Fran=E7ois Fleuret wrote:
> Fran=E7ois Fleuret wrote on 12 Apr 2006 08:32:36 MET:
> > I have avoided upgraded the X server since 6.8.2 on my T41p since all
> > the versions I tried crashed the server directly (black screen,
> > machine frozen, need hard shutdown).
>
> By removing anything fancy from my xorg.conf (DRI and dual-head), the
> 6.9.0 does not crash. However there is an annoying problem: the fan
> never stops.
>
> Even if the CPU remains around 45C, the fan goes on turning. The file
> /proc/acpi/ibm/thermal tells me one of the temp is around 55C when it
> is around 35 with my current setting, thus I guess this is the GPU ?
Quite possibly

> Any idea ?
Have you got   "DynamicClocks"  "True"  in the xorg.conf?=20

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CS