[ltp] sensors

[~D]

On 11/28/2010 04:13 AM, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote:
> On Sat, 27 Nov 2010, ~D wrote:
>    
>> On 11/27/2010 12:47 PM, Yves-Alexis Perez wrote:
>>      
>>> On sam., 2010-11-27 at 12:38 +0100, ~D wrote:
>>>        
>>>> I do use my Thinkpad T61 for audio, so I like to have it silent without
>>>> harming my hardware. How do I know which number belongs to which
>>>> hardware part? How do I know which one is the HDD for example (seems to
>>>> be the part which shouldn't get to hot)
>>>>          
>>> See http://www.thinkwiki.org/wiki/Thermal_sensors#ThinkPad_T61 (though
>>> information is collected manually so it's still a bit error prone)
>>>        
>> Thanks, but I don't see the HDD listed there...
>>      
> You will have to query it directly from the HDD over the SATA bus.  At
> most you'd have an EC thermal sensor *close* to the HDD bay.
>
> ThinkPads are not made to operate silently unless the ambient temperature is
> quite cold, and you do not have a ThinkPad engineered for low thermal output
> in the first place.
>
> You should try to get a X61s, lock it to its lowest performance modes, and
> switch the HDD for a low-thermal-output SSD.  And get your studio's
> temperature to be at most 20°C :)
>
>    
The T61 isn't made to operate silently?

And the X61 is, or also not really?

I have not the cpu governor on 'conservative', that seems to work pretty 
good. No problems with jackd and a more cool system.

Thanks.

~D