[ltp] IBM R51: The always on fan problem

[L. Mark Stone]

On Wednesday, April 26, 2006 10:18, Robert Thau wrote:
> 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.

Running SuSE 10.0 on an R52 1859-BAU (Intel 915GM chipset) just fine.

Almost all of the time the fan runs so slowly I can only hear it if I put my 
head very close to the left side of the unit, and I use this machine as my 
all-day desktop unit, for about four months now.

FWIW, SuSE 10.0 installed flawlessly out of the box.  The only tweak I needed 
to do was to get the video to work at the native 1400x1050, instead of the 
SuSE-selected 1280x1024.  I wrote up a HOWTO, but this only applies to the 
Intel chipsets, not the ATIs.  (I picked an Intel model specifically for the 
Linux driver support.)  See http://pinot.rnome.com/LCD.pdf.

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