[ltp] Cooling fan always running

[Didrik Pinte]

Le lun 23/08/2004 =E0 08:40, Svein Larsen a =E9crit :
> I have a Ibm Thinkpad R50 running Fedora Core 2 with custom kernel
> 2.6.8.1.
>=20
> The always-running fan on my left hand side is irritating and i'm
> wondering if its supposed to run all the time.
>=20
> Is there eventually any tool/daemons who can switch it off when my
> system is cool enough. The air coming out of the fan is not hot at all
> and the machine isnt hot either. Thats why i think that the fan may not
> have to run contunously.
>=20
> - Svein

On my R50, i'm using the fglrx driver and not the radeon one. The fan is
not on all the time. I'm running it on a Debian/Sid system with kernel
2.6.7

Didrik