Re: [OT] Sidux, New HP AMD/ATI dv4 Pavilion - sound, fan, ...

[Frank Lin PIAT <fpiat@klabs.be>]

On Thu, 2009-01-22 at 20:32 +0000, s. keeling wrote:
> s. keeling <keeling@nucleus.com>:
> >  Daryl Styrk <darylstyrk@gmail.com>:
> > >  s. keeling wrote:
> > > > Hi.  This is a nice box.  I've installed Sidux' latest on it.
> > > > 
> > > > The fan runs constantly.  Gkrellm reports 161.6 F; is that normal?
> > > > [snip]
> > > > AMD Turion Dual core, ATI Radeon graphics, 3 Gb RAM.
> > > 
> > >  That seems pretty hot to me.. Is that a constant temp?  Have you looked
> > 
> >  Propping up its back feet, increasing airflow, takes it down to 140 F,
> >  and the fan's backed off a lot.  lm_sensors is working, everything
> >  else seems normal, ...  21st Cent. HW.  :-|
> 
>    -------------------------------
> echo conservative > /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/cpufreq/scaling_governor
> echo conservative > /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu1/cpufreq/scaling_governor
> echo cpufreq_conservative >> /etc/modules
>    -------------------------------

For the record, the recommended way to configure cprufrequtils at boot
time is to configure /etc/default/cpufrequtils (no need to
tweak /etc/modules, on Lenny).

Also, governors are documented at:
/usr/share/doc/linux-doc-2.6.26/Documentation/cpu-freq/governors.txt.gz

Franklin