Incoming from emisca: > > 2009/1/17 s. keeling <keel...@nucleus.com>: > > 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? > > The machine is generally just ticking over, as in not doing anything. > > Why's the fan running constantly? > > > > I've spent the past three days hunting for clues. k8temp kernel > > module, lm_sensors, ... no effect. Suggestions please? > > > > AMD Turion Dual core, ATI Radeon graphics, 3 Gb RAM. > > Check the bios of the machine, there is an option called, "fan always on".
Thanks for the suggestion, but the solution is to fight with cpufreqd, lm_sensors, et al. Esoteric stuff to me. Now it's at 57 C. BTW, it's now running Lenny. Sidux was a reserch expedition for me. I'll keep watching. -- Any technology distinguishable from magic is insufficiently advanced. (*) 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