I also noticed that kernel 2.6.35 wake the fan in my notebook more often. watching sensors output, the fan wakes when temp reached 52°C, then cooled down to 45°C in 30 secs, then fan stops, and the temp soon go up to 50+ in another 30 secs. On Mon, Aug 16, 2010 at 7:46 AM, Isaac Dupree < ml@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On 08/15/10 17:45, David C. Rankin wrote: > >> What type of video card do you have? >> > > Intel 945 class -- it's one of the first to get KMS and the support is > excellent by now. I never ever get slow graphics (although I don't play > games much... IIRC extremetuxracer works fine...) > > > If you can identify anything on your box that seems to influence the >> idle temps or fan noise >> > > Actually, my fan mostly didn't speed up, instead the temp (if this is real) > got hotter, so I manually adjusted it up a bit (via some > macbook-fan-specific mechanism), but maybe it's the same thing (macbook > linux are long known to run the fan a little slower than might be nice, by > default, anyway). > > Check your battery life. My battery life isn't noticeably lower than > before, which makes me doubt whether more energy is actually being used (and > correspondingly turned into heat). > -- Arch Linuxer, Pythoner, Geek --> Blog: http://apt-blog.net
