[ltp] Fan noise fix

Greg Meyer linux-thinkpad@linux-thinkpad.org
Fri, 30 Jul 2004 09:19:03 -0400


On Thursday 29 July 2004 06:16 pm, Charles Gillet wrote:
> Thanks Joel,
>
> I have a T41 and the combination of 3.06f BIOS and this new 3.03 EMBC
> gives me the same fan activity as 3.00 BIOS and the 3.02 EMBC.
>
> Feeling vindicated here as it definitely fixes the 3.06f BIOS + 3.02
> EMBC fan noise problems I complained about a while back.  With that
> combination, I was getting constant fan speed that I only get now when
> /proc/acpi/thermal_zone/THM0/temperature reads around 55C.  It gets even
> louder when things go past 60C.
>
> My system idles at around 38C on AC power and the fan never goes
> completely off (sigh), but it is acceptably quiet. System is Fedora Core
> 2 w/stock kernel + fglrx X driver + ACPI.

I always wondered what a normal temp is, my systems idles at 56C on AC Power.  
Are you doing anything special to get it to run at 38C?

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