Laptop fan won't stop
Hi all,
I am new to Debian. I just installed Debian 3.1 on my Gateway 450
lap-top (which went extremely well, by the way). It runs a 1.6GHz Celeron.
The probelm I have is that the fan won't stop blowing, though the
computer is not hot at all. I installed only the Server set-up (with
the 2.4.27 kernel), so I'm not using a graphical environment. The fan
will blow continuously from boot until shut down. This is the case when
I'm at the command line with no jobs running at all. The air coming out
the back is as cool as the room temperature.
After searching around, it seems that it may be an ACPI and / or APM
conflict. A Mempis poster suggested that the 2.4.29 kernel solved a
similar problem.
Under WindowsXP, the fan would turn on intermittently as expected. So
I'm fairly sure it's a hardware issue (not somehow stuck to "permanently
on" mode.)
Where would I start looking for information on how to fix this problem?
Any other suggestions?
Thanks for your help,
Matt.
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