On 08/15/2010 06:46 PM, Isaac Dupree wrote:
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).
Good point on power consumption. I'll see if I can find powertop in AUR. The instrumentation on my laptop sucks - few sensors, but my best sensors are my hands. The CPU and GPU are located in the left side of my laptop and you can feel the temp changes through the left palmrest. (best sensor of all :)
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