Re: Fan constantly ON on a Dell Latitude E5400

[Emanoil Kotsev <deloptes@yahoo.com>]

S�stien Hinderer wrote:

> Dear all,
> 
> A debian unstable has been installed on the above mentionned machine.
> The system is used in text mode (no X server) and with very few
> applications running (a few shells, an editor, a mail user agent..).
> However, the fan is constantly turned on, although the temperature of
> the processor reported by acpi remains around 30 degrees C.
> 
> Is this behaviour of the fan "normal", or does it prove that something
> is wrongly configured or not working properly ?
> 
> Any help warmly appreciated.
> Kind regards,
> Sebastien.

I think you mean it is running on higher speed as needed?

you can check acpi in /proc and see what policy and temperature you are
using

cat /proc/acpi/thermal_zone/THM/*
<setting not supported>
polling frequency:       2 seconds
state:                   ok
temperature:             53 C
critical (S5):           126 C

I'm using lenny wit 2.6.26 kernel

which kernel are you using - check the kernel config and you can also use
top to see which program is using cpu (system load)


regards