Re: Powerbook G4 getting very hot. Solution?
On Sat, 9 Aug 2003, Sander van Geloven wrote:
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> Pander wrote:
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> > Wolfgang Pfeiffer wrote:
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> >> On Fri, 18 Jul 2003, Pander wrote:
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> >>> My guess is that the fan isn't on as often as it is in OSX, I don't
> >>> know
> >>> where the control for this is.
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> >> On Debian, the fan, once it starts running some minutes after booting
> >> the
> >> machine, never stops running until I shut down Linux. The fan's
> >> running at
> >> low speed, always. Contrary to Mac OS X, where fan speed is changing
> >> from
> >> time to time, IIRC, from "low" to "high" speed, and probably vice versa.
> >> And, again IIRC, in OS X it sometimes even stops running completely for
> >> some time ...
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> I just installed cpudyn, and I don't know if it is because of this or
> the European heat wave, but now my powerbook start doing OSX stylish fan
> control. although not in the "high" speed but more in a sort of an
> unconvincing "middle" speed.
I don't have cpudyn installed, and here on a 2.4.21-ben2 I have the same
nearly permanent fan middle speed as you do ... I *think* that's related to the
hot summer here ...
Before this weather, running the same kernel, the fan sometimes stopped
completely on the running system.
I check from time to time the metal case of the Powerbook G4 here ... if I think
it's getting too hot I simply shut the machine down.
I'm careful with this heat on my machine:
<http://lists.debian.org/debian-powerpc/2002/debian-powerpc-200204/msg00651.html>
Good luck,
Wolfgang
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