s. keeling <keel...@nucleus.com>: > Daryl Styrk <darylst...@gmail.com>: > > s. keeling wrote: > > > Hi. This is a nice box. I've installed Sidux' latest on it. > > > > > > The fan runs constantly. Gkrellm reports 161.6 F; is that normal? > > > [snip] > > > AMD Turion Dual core, ATI Radeon graphics, 3 Gb RAM. > > > > That seems pretty hot to me.. Is that a constant temp? Have you looked > > Propping up its back feet, increasing airflow, takes it down to 140 F, > and the fan's backed off a lot. lm_sensors is working, everything > else seems normal, ... 21st Cent. HW. :-|
------------------------------- echo conservative > /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/cpufreq/scaling_governor echo conservative > /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu1/cpufreq/scaling_governor echo cpufreq_conservative >> /etc/modules ------------------------------- Appears to have solved the excessive fan usage and its temp is now down to 122F. The spot on the case above the harddrive is much cooler now. I've noticed no performance loss yet but haven't really done anything with it; just trying to keep it from burning up before I can use it. -- 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
