Could is be something related to hard-drive activity? Or is the processor just doing more work? did the powernowd change?
I used to just keep my laptop running during the night having it right besides my bed. downloading stuff... Never was a problem. But now it keeps activating the fan wich is unusually noisy and wont let me sleep. :/ - So I guess it must be more then just a feeling. ;) greetz Timo Reimerdes On Mon, 2004-11-29 at 14:09 +0100, Richard Hult wrote: > Colin Leroy wrote: > > On 26 Nov 2004 at 12h11, Timo Reimerdes wrote: > > > > Hi, > > > > > >>Hm... I havent researched it but I said to a friend of mine about 15 > >>minutes ago "somehow the temperature management seems to get worse". *g* > >>In other words - I had the same feeling. (Running Ubuntu 2.6.8.1 now - > >>preparing to test the sleep patch) > > > > > > The fan driver never changed the way it works between its inclusion (around > > 2.6.2 iirc) and 2.6.10-rc2, so it's not temperature management related. > > > > Since 2.6.10-rc2 however, it now works by incrementing fan speed step > > by step according to the temperature. Try it, maybe works better. > > Note that the problem is most likely not related to the fan driver. The > temperature is simply more or less constantly 3-4 degrees higher than > before. If the temperature limit for the fan is raised, it can easily be > seen than the fan doesn't affect this. > > Using cpufreqd or any of the alternatives helps a bit, but only when > idling obviously. > > FWIW, I've tried the new fan driver and it works nicely, although it > doesn't really affect the temperature that much. > > /Richard > > -- > Imendio AB, http://www.imendio.com/ > >
