[ltp] fan always on, t41, xubuntu

[Henrique de Moraes Holschuh]

On Wed, 02 Aug 2006, Laurent Gilson wrote:
> >"cat /proc/acpi/ibm/thermal" says "37 46 32 47 36 -128 33 -128", what do  
> >these figures correspond to
> 
> nobody really, really 100% knows: http://ibm-acpi.sourceforge.net/README .  

Yes, we do.  They vary from model to model, so we just don't know where
every temperature sensor is for every ThinkPad model out there.

http://thinkwiki.org/wiki/Thermal_Sensors

> Not at all. The moment linux loads the kernel disables everything that was  
> configured by the BIOS and makes itīs own rules  

Not really. SMIs can still cause the BIOS to act, and the ThinkPads do SMI
like crazy.

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  Henrique Holschuh