[arch-general] [signoff] kernel26 2.6.35.2-1

[PT M.]

I also noticed that kernel 2.6.35 wake the fan in my notebook more often.

watching sensors output, the fan wakes when temp reached 52°C, then cooled
down to 45°C in 30 secs, then fan stops, and the temp soon go up to 50+ in
another 30 secs.



On Mon, Aug 16, 2010 at 7:46 AM, Isaac Dupree <
ml at isaac.cedarswampstudios.org> wrote:

> On 08/15/10 17:45, David C. Rankin wrote:
>
>> What type of video card do you have?
>>
>
> Intel 945 class -- it's one of the first to get KMS and the support is
> excellent by now.  I never ever get slow graphics (although I don't play
> games much... IIRC extremetuxracer works fine...)
>
>
>  If you can identify anything on your box that seems to influence the
>> idle temps or fan noise
>>
>
> Actually, my fan mostly didn't speed up, instead the temp (if this is real)
> got hotter, so I manually adjusted it up a bit (via some
> macbook-fan-specific mechanism), but maybe it's the same thing (macbook
> linux are long known to run the fan a little slower than might be nice, by
> default, anyway).
>
> Check your battery life.  My battery life isn't noticeably lower than
> before, which makes me doubt whether more energy is actually being used (and
> correspondingly turned into heat).
>



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