Re: fan activity during suspend

[Calum Mackay <calum.mackay@sun.com>]

Calum Mackay wrote:
> Janne Enoksson wrote:
>
> > I'm running Debian unstable on a Thinkpad R30 and everything works
> > (mostly) to my satisfaction with two exceptions: the suspend and standby
> > mode. Going into both modes work just fine, as does coming out of
> > them. The annoying thing is that the fan starts working at full speed
> > after about 30 minutes of inactivity. I don't think this is normal
> > behavior for this laptop. I'm currently running the 2.4.18 kernel, but 
> > I've
> > experienced the problem under different kernels as well. So, am I the 
> > only one that has experienced this? How about other R30
> > users? Does anybody have any idea what could cause this problem?
>
>
> I get this coming out of suspend-to-ram every time; Latitude C400, 
> 2.4.20, APM.
>
> Pressing fn+z tells the BIOS to recheck the sensors and stops the fans.

That's on Dell's only, of course :(  Apols; misread this and thought I 
was reading the dell laptop list.

cheers,
c.