Am Samstag, 22. Dezember 2012 schrieb Jack Schneider: > On Sat, 22 Dec 2012 19:33:31 +1100 > > Daniel Dalton <d.dal...@iinet.net.au> wrote: > > Hello, > > > > I'm using a Dell vostro 3350 machine. > > > > At times I feel the intensity of the fan is unnecessarily high. > > > > This occurs when for example using firefox or watching flash. > > > > It seems most times when I restart the gui the fan returns to normal > > speed. > > > > This is a concern because it obviously will effect battery life. > > > > So I'm wondering if this is unusual behaviour, and if so how to maybe > > correct it? > > > > I've looked at thinkafan but no idea what I'm doing to be honest. > > > > Thanks in advance for any help. > > > > Cheers, > > Dan
Hi Daniel, just make sure, that the cooler free of dust. After some time, there is a lot of dust in the cooler, which is clogging the air exit. If this is ok, you might want to try pwmconfig, which is creating the configurationfile for fancontrol (/etc/fancontrol). Good luck! Hans -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/201212221844.50314.hans.ullr...@loop.de
