seraph741 Posted August 26, 2006 Report Share Posted August 26, 2006 hi, i have a problem with my fans always running on my laptop computer. In mandriva, they run all the time, i can hear it, as soon as i switch to windows, they quiet down. i have installed cpufreqd for cpu throttling and thottle my cpu from 2400 to 1500 when not needed. it runs at about 140 F most the time, its a P4 2.4. Is there some setting i should look at for this problem? what controls the fans and what can i do with it? thanks! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lavaeolus Posted August 26, 2006 Report Share Posted August 26, 2006 have a look at /proc/acpi/thermal_zone/THRM there should be a file called trip_points which shows at which temperature your fans start (beware the temp in there is in ° C) there is a possibility to change this values, but this does not work on every notebook: http://www.columbia.edu/~ariel/acpi/acpi_h...tml#trip_points if you have a toshiba-notebook there is a command-line-tool called acpitool which lets you switch the fan on and off is ACPI running on your notebook, most of this problems are related to ACPI Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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