Berni Elbourn <be...@elbournb.fsnet.co.uk>: > s. keeling wrote: > > No, I've gkrellm displaying graphs of each core. Flash videos spike > > both to 100%, and xscreensaver ramps up there too. > > Sorry I did not explain clearly. Powersaved will actually scale the > processor speed back. So when under light load the CPU speed drops to > 800mhz say. And kpowersave will show this. Similarly Your fans will come > on and off as needed.
When I looked, I found powersaved already installed, along with acpid and cpufrequtils. The fan never turns off, and cpu is 0-1% in both cores, until I do something with it. > My Turion easily goes to 60C under load. I seem to recall the amd Mine was at 66C until I propped up its back feet. Now it's 143.6F/62C. > website allows them to go up to 90C (YMMV)...just don't use on your lap. Good to know, thanks. I was getting worried. How long do laptop fans last these days? -- Any technology distinguishable from magic is insufficiently advanced. (*) http://blinkynet.net/comp/uip5.html Linux Counter #80292 - - http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc1855.html Please, don't Cc: me. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-laptop-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
