> Ah, something else to explore. I installed the cpudyn package and that > stops the fan a little. However, reading man cpudyn, it mentions that > throttling is integrated into kernel from 2.6 on - I'm using 2.6.13. > When I removed it, and rebooted, the fan went back to never switching > off. > > I noticed that a lot of folk use > # modprobe cpufreq_userspace > so I loaded that, which at least stops the fan from time to time, > although I have no idea what it does! (Despite goggling for a while...) > That said, it seemed to have created the /proc/acpi/processor/ chain. > > Which modules and packages are the "best" too use, or to start with?
I would rather use the direct kernel functions to control the frequency (as opposed to using the cpufreq_userspace and a userspace program). That means you should for example # modprobe cpufreq_ondemand and tell the kernel to use the ondemand governor for frequency scaling: # echo "ondemand" > /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/cpufreq/scaling_governor (you will have to do that every time you boot, so add a script to your runlevel) The only disadvantage of the direct kernel method is, that you won't be able to scale the frequency according to battery/AC-adapter status, which some of the userspace programs will. Hope that helps a bit, feel free to ask further questions. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
