Sheer El-Showk wrote:
> [... fans ...]
> So the question/poll is for those core duo MBP owners (but C2D owners
> should also share their experiences).
I'm on a MBP C2D.
> Does your fan become active a lot (3k+ rpms and noisy)?
Yes. As you've mentioned there is no obvious correlation with load
Hi All,
First ATI just released new drivers (8.35.5). Anyone have the energy
to check whether they support powerplay on C2D MBPs (it only supports
2.6.20 on fedora but next month's release should support it in general
- of course by then I'll have moved to 2.6.21 for dynticks)?
Here are some int
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Hello,
Kai Weber wrote:
> * Nicolas Boichat <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
>
>> The fans are controlled by the SMC (i.e. by the hardware). I'm almost
>> certain OS X doesn't change anything about the behaviour of the chip.
>
> I would guess it's a combination
* Sheer El-Showk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> are and control how often the fans start up. Anyone know a tool that
> can plot/store fan vs temperature data in OS X?
http://bresink.de/osx/HardwareMonitor.html
I ordered it for 7 € and run it since some weeks. I had no time to
plot the curves, yet.
Kai
* Nicolas Boichat <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> The fans are controlled by the SMC (i.e. by the hardware). I'm almost
> certain OS X doesn't change anything about the behaviour of the chip.
I would guess it's a combination of hardware and software. Else the
various firmware updates for SMC which adjuste
Well, I'd hardly call my testing scientific but I did print out the
output of all the temperature sensors in
/sys/devices/platform/applesmc and found that they were mostly not
that high compared to what I got on OS X so it would be weird if there
were other sensors elsewhere that were very high. S
