On Mon, 2011-02-21 at 09:00 -0500, Anton Aylward wrote:
Mark Misulich said the following on 02/21/2011 07:53 AM:
Opensuse 11.2 & 3 don't turn on the cooling fans to keep the laptop from overheating.
Could you expand on that? Yes, normally in 11.1 the fan comes on at about 55 degrees C. The temperature is determined by readout from ~acpi -t or ~cat /proc/acpi/thermal_zone/TZ0/temperature
Then the fan comes on, I think at full blast, and stays on until the laptop is shut down. It keeps the cpu at about 40 degrees C as per the above readouts. In 11.2 & 11.3, the fan doesn't come on to cool the cpu. It will come on if I let it go till it hits the overheat limit,then it cycles on and off to keep the cpu temperature about 90 or 95 degrees C.
Have you read FANCONTROL(8)?
No, I haven't read that. Would you expand on this so that I can understand what you are referring to? I need to be educated about this.
Have you included the kernel modules "fan" and "thermal"? No, I haven't. Would you expand on that so that I can understand what you are referring to and how to build and include these modules? I need to be educated about this.
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