At 4:19 PM +0100 5/10/06, Dave Mitchell wrote: >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) My guess is that its trying for a lower temperature than before, and thus using the fan more. ____________________________________________________________________ TonyN.:' <mailto:tonynelson@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> ' <http://www.georgeanelson.com/>
