[ltp] Re: tpfand configuration for an X200s

[Henrique de Moraes Holschuh]

On Tue, 02 Dec 2008, Christoph Bier wrote:
> Henrique de Moraes Holschuh schrieb am 02.12.2008 16:14:
> > On Tue, 02 Dec 2008, John Li wrote:
> >> Being stuck at a high speed seems to a bug somewhere, but the bottom
> >> of my X200 (around the ram) does /seem/ to get warmer, faster with
> >> Linux compared to Vista. Also on Vista, the fan only gets as loud when
> >> doing something pretty CPU intensive for a while, and quickly slows
> >> back down when idling. I don't have equipment to do empirical tests,
> >> unfortunately, but does it make sense for Linux to be doing something
> >> differently that causes a non-trivial temperature increase?
> > 
> > Yes.  But I'd suggest you find out if the fan on a X200 is supposed to be
> > that loud at that RPM level, first.  Your fan might be a lemon.
> 
> The fan of my X200s is nearly inaudible.

Better compare it knowing the RPM of the fans involved.  sensors (from
lm-sensors 3.0) or cat /proc/acpi/ibm/fan  will tell you the RPM.

Even my T43 fan is quited at low RPM :-)

-- 
  "One disk to rule them all, One disk to find them. One disk to bring
  them all and in the darkness grind them. In the Land of Redmond
  where the shadows lie." -- The Silicon Valley Tarot
  Henrique Holschuh