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#1 2009-11-15 21:40:10

kinky
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From: Germany
Registered: 2009-09-14
Posts: 17

Medion MD40200 (continous fan spinning)

Good Evening (in Germany atleast),
I got a Problem with my Notebook (Medion MD40200 Cytron TCM-Edition), the fans are spinning, always.
It starts at the Login-screen, with X as well as without. At the same time, the temperature of the notebook is rising.(felt on the fan-outputs)

I'm using Openbox with tint2 as a panel. Graphics driver is xf86-video-ati
The processor is a Mobile AMD Athlon XP2600+ , the graphics card is a ATI Radeon Mobility U1

This problem is arch-specific, on Ubuntu/Windows XP, the fans are working normally.
I'm looking forward to get help from you, I don't want to switch the distribution because of this smile
greetings, kinky

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#2 2009-11-16 08:11:37

MadTux
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Registered: 2009-09-20
Posts: 553

Re: Medion MD40200 (continous fan spinning)

Did you install power management tools such as acpi, cpufreq, laptop-mode? These are installed per default in distributions such as Ubuntu but you would have to do that manually in Arch.

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#3 2009-11-16 12:57:15

kinky
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From: Germany
Registered: 2009-09-14
Posts: 17

Re: Medion MD40200 (continous fan spinning)

Do I need to install all three of them, when yes, do I have to edit configs or should it run as it's installed?

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#4 2009-11-16 18:02:03

MadTux
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Registered: 2009-09-20
Posts: 553

Re: Medion MD40200 (continous fan spinning)

Here are some wiki articles to read:

http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Cpufreq
http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Laptop_Mode_Tools
http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/ACPI_modules

At least cpufreq needs a little configuration and you need to configure automatic start. But that isn't a big problem. I would at least install cpufreq and laptop-mode, but cpufreq requires acpi, so I guess you need all three. But acpi is a kernel module, so no need to install, you just need to load the correct module.

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