[ltp] How to kick the FAN Up.

[Alejandro Bonilla]

Florian Trippel wrote:

>Hi Alejandro,
>
>I basically have the same problem: I baught a t43p and compiled gentoo
>from stage1. I later realized the heat: cat /proc/acpi/temperature
>yields 87 C. That's really bad, since I get an impression of what the
>fan can do at boot up. It seems it does not adjust to load. With
>ibm-acpi installed, you can even read fan speed with: cat
>/proc/acpi/ibm/fan and this tells me that fan goes only up very little
>when under load due do compilation for instance. I have put in a
>service request to IBM already, since I cannot imagine that it is very
>good for a tp to get that hot! But still, where do we know, that 87 C
>ist corret? Maybe the value is not right, I also asked IBM for a
>program they approve and that reads temperature values. Do you think
>our thinkpads got already damaged? Mine has run 3 days, 6 hours a day
>at 87 C if the value is correct :-(. I think it is not acceptable,
>  
>

WOW, Sucks!

We need someone to tell us what to do.

.Alejandro