[ltp] IBM R51: The always on fan problem

[Robert Thau]

Pasquale Imbemba writes:
 > Hi Joerg,
 > 
 > my first distro was SuSE 7.3. It was simply horrible, because full of 
 > bugs. But I know SuSE's "normal" reputation and would be willing to use 
 > the open SuSE distro.
 > Currently they're on ver. 10.0. Do you have any knowledge here for the 
 > fan matter?

I'm typing this on an R51 running SuSE v10.0 --- the only problem 
I've got is occasional crashes while trying to suspend to disk.  
The fan is not running.

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