Re: Laptop fan won't stop

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Joan Tur wrote:

> Es Dimarts, 12 de Juliol de 2005 02:56, en GiveMeFish Lists va escriure:
> | 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?
> First of all I'd try the latest 2.6 kernel, not a 2.4.  Be sure to load your 
> cpufreq module and to run an appropiate speedstep tool like cpudyn or 
> powernow.
>
> Good luck  ;)
>
> | Thanks for your help,
> | Matt.
>
>  

Joan, list,

thanks for the advice.  Would you recommend cpudyn or powernow?

Do you know of any reason why the modules you listed (cpufreq, cpydyn 
and / or powernow) would have any problems running on a Celeron processor?

Thanks,
Matt.