Re: Laptop fan doesn't stop

[Sthu Deus <sthu.deus@gmail.com>]

Good time, amt.

You wrote:
>Hello, running Debian Squeeze 6.0.3 amd64 on a DELL laptop and I have
>a problem with the fan. When it boots up, the fan is really silent but
>after a few of minutes it starts working and doesn't stop at all. I
>didn't had this problem when I was running a debian based distro.(it
>would start really slient, then work for a while, then go back silent
>and so on).
>
>
>Is there a fix to make my fan more responsive?

Yes. Look toward thiese utilities:

cpufrequtils
loadcpufreq
fancontrol

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