On Thu, 2009-10-15 at 15:45 -0700, Konstantin Svist wrote: > I get similar behavior with my Dell laptop. The cause here is that the > radeon driver doesn't shut off my backlight when the lid is closed, so > the temperature stays fairly high -- and the CPU fan attempts to lower > it constantly. You have a fan-cooled backlight? Some laptops need the lid left open while running, as their lid blocks the airflow. Some of those laptops deliberately make the fan run when the lid's shut, others of them leave it up to you to do something about it. -- [tim@localhost ~]$ uname -r 2.6.27.25-78.2.56.fc9.i686 Don't send private replies to my address, the mailbox is ignored. I read messages from the public lists. -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
