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Re: [latest PATCH] Albook fan driver



On Thu, Jan 22, 2004 at 01:55:19PM +0100, Colin Leroy wrote:
> > I did that and it worked. The stress test this time was the above loop
> > with your chip-friendly extension and a while (true); do echo; done in
> > another terminal. The fan startet at 60 centigrades:
> > And the parameter you gave changes the limit from 50 to 60, so tha fan
> > starts at a higher temperature. Shouldn't this foster overheating
> > instead of prevent it?
> 
> Well, probably setting the limit too low is not a good idea... According
> to Marco, the fan starts at about 62°C under OS X. So, here is another
> patch with better defaults for the powerbook.
> 
> Keep me informed :)

I applied this latest patch and it worked so far. I'll do a liitle mor
stress-testing this evening. I'll also look into MacOSX. 

Best regards,

Wolfi



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