[ltp] Noisy fan on T42

[Florian Reitmeir]

On Mon, 07 M=C3=A4r 2005, Alexandru D. Salcianu wrote:


> I have an IBM ThinkPad T42 2373-6VU, 1.7GHz Centrino, ATI Radeon 7500,
> running Fedora Core 3, kernel 2.6.10-1.766_FC3, Xorg 6.8.1.
>=20
> My (huge) problem is that the fan is always on in Linux, at full
> speed, even when I don't run anything ;( I've even changed the BIOS
> settings such that the processor always runs at min speed (600Mhz) and
> the noise from the fan is unchanged ...

try unloading the usb uhci module, the module prevents the cpu from stepping
to C3.

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