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Re: New kernel -> more heat ?



On Mon, 2002-09-16 at 22:48, Vincent Beffara wrote: 
> 
> I'm the happy owner of a TiBook DVI, and after the usual X11 config
> stuff I had no problem running Debian on it.
> 
> And yesterday I rsync'ed a new benh kernel, compiled it and booted it :
> it works fine except that now the fan _never_ stops, where with the
> previous kernel it only started while running some heavy simulation or
> watching DVDs.

In my experience the graphics chip and display produce quite a lot of
heat. The environment also seems to matter. Sometimes it stays on almost
constantly here, sometimes it stays off mostly.


-- 
Earthling Michel Dänzer (MrCooper)/ Debian GNU/Linux (powerpc) developer
XFree86 and DRI project member   /  CS student, Free Software enthusiast



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