Re: NO CPU FAN

[Johannes Wiedersich <johannes@physik.blm.tu-muenchen.de>]

Adriel Cardenas wrote:
> Hi;
>
> I just have installed Debian 3.1 on a HP nc6230 Laptop, I've selected 
> the 2.6 kernel (option linux26) in order to make the softmodem included 
> in this laptop to work under Debian, but the problem is that once that I 
> rebooted the heat went really high, I can feel the keyboard ver hot, so 
> I restarted the machine to see if the problem persist and notice that as 
> soon as i select to boot Debian GNU/Linux the fan stops. I did reboot 
> again and select Windows XP this time (dual boot machine) and the fan 
> worked fine, so I did again reboot the machine and select Debian, and I 
> can hear how the fan stops and starts to heat on.... does anyone has 
> experience something like this before???? Here's my dmesg if someone 
> could be so kind with your comments. I believe it has something to do 
> with ACPI but I'm not sure, and I'm not that experienced user.

Do you have packages acpid and acpi installed?

# aptitude install acpid acpi

Johannes