[ltp] Kick up the Fan - R50e Fan problems - Broken governors
Brad Langhorst
linux-thinkpad@linux-thinkpad.org
Mon, 22 Aug 2005 13:43:43 -0400
On Sun, 2005-08-21 at 18:13 -0400, David A. Desrosiers wrote:
> > Its been enabled for months, so yes. The 'full-speed' patch
> > seems to keep enough heat off of the GPU to make using it for
> > moderate to heavy OpenGL, finally possible... so far. I haven't
> > tried it for more than 30 minutes.
>
> Ack, looks like the new full-speed acpi patch for the fan
> allows me to use OpenGL a bit longer, but not indefinitely. It just
> hard-locked the machine at about 45 minutes, with the CPU at 49C and
> the GPU at 55C.
i don't think that's hot enough to cause a lockup unless your hardware
is faulty.
brad