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Re: My fan is out of control - Help!!



Le jeudi 04 novembre 2004 à 11:38 -0600, "Muñoz Palominos, César
Augusto" a écrit :
> With my computer, when it is turned on, there will be a loud whirring
> noise during the BIOS loading and when Windows XP starts loading. But
> when I get to the login screen for Windows XP, the whirring stops. 
> 
>  
> 
> While running linux (Debian, Red Hat, Suse, Knoppix, etc), however,
> the whirring never stops and continues until I shut off the computer.
> 
> The whirring noise I later found was the fan (Power device, I guess). 
> 
> Does anybody know how to remedy this problem? Because the noise is
> very annoying
> 
> Please help me! 
> 
>  
> 
> My computer is Sony Vaio DESKTOP (PCV-RX74), Pentium 4 processor 1.8
> ghz., 128 mb ram.

You probably want to add "apm" in /etc/modules (if you are using a 2.4
kernel) or to install acpid (if you are using a 2.6 kernel), so that CPU
idle calls are correctly done.
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