[ltp] [ACPI] fan always on: ACPI on IBM ThinkPad R51

[James Knott]

Svein Larsen wrote:
> I have an R50 and i think it was me who started this thread.
> Can someone please update me if i missed something; is there a solution
> to make the fan stop when only cold air coming out of the fan? Its
> really annoying. I'am quite sure that when i boot Winoze (seldom tho :)
> the fan often stops when computer is idle. It never happens when booting
> into linux :/

I'd rather have a fan that didn't stop, than one that didn't run.