I have a year-old laptop with a pentium 4, running Debian testing with kernel 2.6.6. After an initial 5 minutes of calm after booting, the cooling fan comes on and remains on in a state of relatively high activity; it is very noisy).
Oddly, for the last two weeks, it worked every day in quiet or inactive fan states, unless given something very processor-intensive to do. I was using the /proc/acpi/processor interface to throttle down the processor when I didn't need high speed and this certainly has the effect of reducing performance. It was my impression that it also helped reduce the fan activity during the two-week "quiet spell". However it's now back to its vacuum-cleaner sort of level of noise (after the initial 5 minutes after boot), and throttling the processor right down to minimum seems to have no effect on the fan activity, although it still controls performance. I would like to know whether this is a hardware or software issue, and if the latter whether it perhaps indicates that I am not taking proper advantage of some acpi-related features available in 2.6 kernels. Does any one have an opinion, or could you give me some pointers as to how to proceed? Thanks a lot, Dan p.s. The laptop brand is "HugeBee". -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
