Dear Stan, I sent my laptop to HP and I got the fan replaced. Now it's running quite cool.
Thank you for your support Hoang Le On Tue, Apr 19, 2011 at 10:27 AM, Stan Hoeppner <s...@hardwarefreak.com>wrote: > Hoang Le put forth on 4/18/2011 9:55 PM: > > Dear Stan, > > > > Unfortuntately, my PC don't have an option to control fan speed in BIOS. > > Just one option: "Fan always on on AC power". This machine run really > > quietly. Is there anyway to check the fan speed from Linux? > > I just realized after re-reading your original post that you're running > Compiz. Doing so will keep your GPU hot most of the time, which is why > you feel heat under your hands. You're also decreasing battery life > substantially by running Compiz when on battery. > > If you use your laptop primarily while plugged into wall power, enable > the setting in the BIOS, if it's not already enabled. That will fix the > heat problem. If it's already enabled, and still running hot, contact > HP as there may be a problem. > > WRT checking/changing fan speed in Linux, fancontrol is the daemon to > due it. Did you manually configure fancontrol after installing it? Did > you install lm-sensors and configure it? > > -- > Stan > > > -- > 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/4dad013c.4020...@hardwarefreak.com > >
