On Mon, 16 May 2011, Toralf Förster wrote: > It seems that it needs a loooong time before a fan speed of >2800/min is > lowered to ~1900/min : Yes. > > modprobe thinkpad-acpi debug=0x8010 fan_control=1 > This doesn't gave any useful information within /var/log/messages, the fan > speed seems to be fully vontroled by the ekrnel itself. In 'auto' mode, it is being controlled by the EC. I asked for the debug= parameter, for you to check if anything is telling the fan to change modes/speed. -- "One disk to rule them all, One disk to find them. One disk to bring them all and in the darkness grind them. In the Land of Redmond where the shadows lie." -- The Silicon Valley Tarot Henrique Holschuh ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Achieve unprecedented app performance and reliability What every C/C++ and Fortran developer should know. Learn how Intel has extended the reach of its next-generation tools to help boost performance applications - inlcuding clusters. http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-dev2devmay _______________________________________________ ibm-acpi-devel mailing list ibm-acpi-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ibm-acpi-devel