[ltp] X200 Fan / Power issues

[Andrew Mason]

Thanks for the reply Jochen,
I know that Henrique sent off a request to Lenovo a while back and a
few off the Ubuntu kernel team have had a chance to play with an X200
so I guess I was just trying to see if it was still worth following up
or if either of them had been resolved and it was just in waiting.

On 3/6/09, Jochen Schulz <jrschulz@well-adjusted.de> wrote:
> Andrew Mason:
>>
>> Has anyone tried the newer 2.6.28 or 2.6.29-rc kernels with the X200 /
>> X200s ? If so is there any reduction in power usage and are the fan
>> issues still present ?
>
> I am currently using the latest 2.6.29-rc kernels, but I cannot really
> comment on either issue. Battery runtime *appears* to be better, but
> since I never use more than one charge a day anyway, I am not sure. I
> could provide battery logs ('acpi -b' every five minutes), but currently
> it doesn't include the runnig kernel's version number.
>
> About the fan issue: I am quite sure that it hasn't been getting better,
> but don't find it that annoying either since even if the fan is running
> at top speed, it is not noticeable in my environments.
>
> J.
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