Re: Control CPU fan's speed

[Ian Zimmerman <itz@speakeasy.org>]

Nate> my p3-800 still runs at 50C(AFAIK when its idle, as i can't
Nate> query the cpu from linux yet lm_sensors doesn't support the
Nate> chip..so 50C is from the bios)

I labored under the same misconception until Frodo (author of
lmsensors) corrected me.

The CPU is very far from idle when you're in the BIOS: in fact it is
in a tight loop waiting for keyboard input.  The reading you get from
BIOS is likely _higher_ than one you will/would get from lmsensors on
a normally loaded Linux system.

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