Re: [OT] What about your fans ?

[Tom C. <tca...@ch...>]

On Mon, Nov 14, 2005 at 02:14:12AM +0100, Olivier Mehani wrote:
> Hi,
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> I'm sorry, this mail might be totally off topic, but I didn't manage to
> find a real user-related linuxppc ML and didn't feel like posting on
> linuxppc-devel was a good idea. I'm posting here because I feel this is
> a somewhat powermanagement problem. Please, feel free to flame if there
> is a more appropriate ML ;)

The fans are controlled by kernel module therm_adt746x.  The settings are
controllable from /sys/devices/temperatures.  The reported temperatures
are neither C nor F. =20

> I have an iBook 12" from 06/2005. And I find that, compared to what I
> have seen with OS X, the fans are on much more often. Is this normal ?
> I guess the "adt746x: Lowering max temperatures from 69, 92, 101 to 70,
> 50, 70" in my logs can explain that, but I wanted to be sure it was the
> normal behavior and not something to worry about.

My pbook runs the fans more often under linux than osx.  The system is a
lot warmer under osx.

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> Moreover (and this is my real problem which I think may be related to
> the above), the computer sometimes freezes or suddenly reboots.
> Whenever this happens, the fans are always (by the noise) at their
> maximum speed. This behavior started around the time (can't be more
> precise I'm affraid:-/ ) I dumped pmud for pbbuttonsd to do all the
> job. Maybe I'm missing something or made a mistake. Google was not so
> chatty about this problem...

I do not experience any lockups.

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> For information:
> Linux gloduk 2.6.13-gentoo-r3 #2 Sun Nov 6 17:43:59 CET 2005 ppc 7447A,
> altivec supported PowerBook6,5 GNU/Linux
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> pbbuttonsd, version 0.7.2, (c) 2002-2005 Matthias Grimm
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> I'm really at a loss, so any hint or detail on how it is for you will be
> largely appreciated.
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> Olivier Mehani <sh...@ss...>
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