[ltp] Re: tpfand configuration for an X200s

[Henrique de Moraes Holschuh]

On Fri, 05 Dec 2008, Volker Krüger wrote:
> could it be possible that lenovo's powermanagement is overriding the bios
> fan control (among other things)?

This is very unlikely.

> could someone investigate if there is a difference in power consumption
> between the ordinary visa (w/o lenovo drivers) and lenovo's vista (with
> lenovo drivers)?

The Lenovo drivers make Vista (and XP) behave much better on the ThinkPad.
Power draw with no Lenovo drivers is expected to be higher.

Which means the test will not give you any definite answer about the fan.

> It could be that the ordinary vista uses as much power as linux, right?

Yes.

> Another possibility is that the bios is used differently by vista and by
> linux: The bios might very well have a bug which might not come apparent
> under vista... How much does the X200s consume under XP or win2000?

That's a possibility, yes.

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