Re: Lenny fan level "auto" not fast enough, Thinkpad x60

2009-03-08 Thread Vivek Dasmohapatra
From what my gpu-knowledgable friends tell me, laptops can have (in the windows world) hamstrung drivers for their graphics chipsets as laptops can have poor cooling for GPUs: Whether or not that's true, as the graphics support on my laptop has improved, (in performance terms) as the Xorg drive

Re: Lenny fan level "auto" not fast enough, Thinkpad x60

2009-03-08 Thread Stefan Monnier
> My thinkpad x60 1706-BS8 overheats while compiling/rendering if > /proc/acpi/ibm/fan is set to "auto". This probably indicates that your fan (or some part of the air-flow path) needs cleaning. Stefan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-laptop-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject

Re: Lenny fan level "auto" not fast enough, Thinkpad x60

2009-03-08 Thread twfb
Daryl Styrk wrote: > I am curious as well how to make this happen. What temps are you getting > when it shuts down? I've seen my T61 get as hot as 158F/70C and still > hadn't shutdown. With normal working temps around 102F/39C. Mine gets quite hot to say the least it claims 128C when it shuts dow

Re: Lenny fan level "auto" not fast enough, Thinkpad x60

2009-03-08 Thread Cristian Ionescu-Idbohrn
On Sun, 8 Mar 2009, twfb wrote: > Greetings list, > > My thinkpad x60 1706-BS8 overheats while compiling/rendering if > /proc/acpi/ibm/fan is set to "auto". > > I have been running Lenny for quite some time and it used to be fine. > The problems started sometime this autumn, perhaps around the ker

Re: Lenny fan level "auto" not fast enough, Thinkpad x60

2009-03-08 Thread Daryl Styrk
twfb wrote: Greetings list, My thinkpad x60 1706-BS8 overheats while compiling/rendering if /proc/acpi/ibm/fan is set to "auto". I have been running Lenny for quite some time and it used to be fine. The problems started sometime this autumn, perhaps around the kernel upgrade. The way I curren

Lenny fan level "auto" not fast enough, Thinkpad x60

2009-03-08 Thread twfb
Greetings list, My thinkpad x60 1706-BS8 overheats while compiling/rendering if /proc/acpi/ibm/fan is set to "auto". I have been running Lenny for quite some time and it used to be fine. The problems started sometime this autumn, perhaps around the kernel upgrade. The way I currently get around