[ltp] Fan always on problem... does it happen on R52 with the Intel Media Gr

[Jaime Iniesta]

Thanks all for the help with that. I've seen the script that takes
control of the fan but as far as I've understood, it only works in
battery mode, but when you're on AC, the fan gets back to the default
behaviour. I'm going to work most of the time on AC so that wouldn't
help much, I'm interested in stopping the fan to avoid computer noise,
not to save batteries.

Anyway, when the fan is on, does it make much noise, or just as any
common laptop? Is it the same on Windows or is a problem with Linux?

Being a Linux newbie I'm quite scared when it comes to patches and scripts.=
..

So... I think I will not buy this laptop, and instead I will get a
Dell Inspiron 6000. It's similar to the R52 on the processor and
graphics card, but for the same price I'll get also a DVD recorder and
1 Gb RAM... I've tested this laptop and the fan turns on quite
frequently but is very silent, you wouldn't hear it unless you went to
a very silent room.

I prefer IBM to Dell but I won't buy a computer with a known problem,
that is not recognised as a problem by the manufacturer...

2005/8/11, Ovidiu Achim <amorox@gmail.com>:
> Hi,
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> Have a look on http://www.thinkwiki.org/wiki/Problem_with_fan_noise.
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> If their last sentence is true then you don't need any script to
> start/stop the fan:
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> "On my T41 (gentoo-sources-2.6.11.11 ) I noticed that after unloading
> the fan module the fan noise stopped"
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> Cheers,
> amo
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> On 8/11/05, Leon Brokken <leon.brokken@utu.fi> wrote:
> > I believe some time ago a script was posted (by Rivier?) that should
> > take care of automatically stopping/restarting the fan. Maybe he could
> > post it again, as I would also be interested to see if it works for me
> > on a T41.
> >
> > Cheers, Leon.
> >
> > Florian Dorpmueller wrote:
> >
> > >> I'm going to buy the R52 with the INTEL MEDIA GRAPHICS
> > >> card, not with the ATI,
> > >
> > >
> > > Very good idea!
> > >
> > > I don=B4t know about any problem with Intel graphics cards. Since I h=
ave
> > > a R51 with an ATI card I can tell you that the problems with Intels
> > > can=B4t be more annoyingly. But it is consoling that the fan of my
> > > Thinkpad is very quiet...
> > >
> > > Cheers,
> > > Flori
> > >
> > >
> >
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