On Wed, May 10, 2006 at 11:13:55AM -0400, David Cary Hart wrote: > On Wed, 10 May 2006 02:42:12 +0100, Dave Mitchell <davem@xxxxxxxxx> > opined: > > under FC3, my laptop fan seemed to do the right thing: off or > > nearly off most of the time; switching to a high speed whirh after > > the CPU had been at max freq for a while. > > > > Since installing FC5 (and putting in a higher-capacity hard disk), > > the fan is contantly on at a low-ish speed regardless of CPU > > frequency. > > > > Any ideas where I should look? > > > > Its a Dell D400 with 1.4GHz Intel Centrino. > > > You first need to eliminate the possibility that you have unexpected > resource consumption. "top" ? BTW, this happened to me when I first > install FC5 due to Beagle. No, this is with zero-ish CPU activity and CPU at minimum frequency. Also no disk activity. (as shown by the pretty graphs of the system monitor applet) -- "The greatest achievement of the Austrians has been convincing the world that Hitler was German, and Mozart Austrian."
