[ltp] T60 Fan speed

Henrique de Moraes Holschuh linux-thinkpad@linux-thinkpad.org
Mon, 26 Mar 2007 16:13:32 -0300


On Mon, 26 Mar 2007, Alfredo Matos wrote:
> On Mon, 2007-03-26 at 12:04 -0300, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote:
> > On Mon, 26 Mar 2007, Alfredo Matos wrote:
> > > - Using the disengaged mode works to get full steam going, and I hit
> > > 5500 RPMs. The problem (which is probably not a problem) is that after
> > > enabling disengaged, the fan takes a while to speed up, and the fan proc
> > > entry takes even longer.
> > 
> > By that you mean that, after a possibly big while, cat /proc/acpi/ibm/fan
> > told you you had ~5500 rpm?
> 
> Yes, it did. I could also hear the fan gradually increasing speed
> (noise).

Ah, nice news!  I will test this on my T43 right away, and update
ThinkWiki's EC bug descriptions accordingly.

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