[ltp] WARNING for everyone doing ThinkPad fan control

Henrique de Moraes Holschuh linux-thinkpad@linux-thinkpad.org
Tue, 15 Jul 2008 18:46:13 -0300


On Tue, 15 Jul 2008, Richard Neill wrote:
> Also, is there any way to make the EC control the CPU? i.e. to say that  
> silence is more important than performance? So when the EC would speed  
> up the fan, it should throttle back the CPU.

Set the BIOS toggles out of performance mode into something else, like
balanced mode or somesuch.

And you can lock your CPU to whatever max speed you want in Linux, anyway.

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