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I have power saving work nicely, both cores are running at 1GHz when idle. But this laptop tends to run quite hot. Its running hot also in Vista (yuck) so I doubt that heat will break this so easily. But its not nice when bottom of this thing is almost burning my hand. I noted that CPU cooler is running quite slow RPMS when CPU load is slow I wondered if I could speed it up.
Any ideas where to start looking?
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Hi, Obi-Lan.
Is this what you're looking for?
http://www.thinkwiki.org/wiki/How_to_control_fan_speed
~CaspianXI
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I dont think its gonna work because I got el cheapo lenovo without thinkpad badge
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give it a shot at least, you'll never know.
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I think you may be right, found these bits. None good, something about a bug in the bios as this thread.
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=381611 Looking at this thread, it seems it may be possible but not sure the solution is one you want to take(Think you need a kernel hacker friend or be a kernel hacker.) Though from the look of things you'd be helping quite a few people seems your not alone.
As mentioned in the thread it was bug reported here, http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=8713 but I suspect it may look like a bios problem though. As this seems to of been reported a 4 months ago but with quite a late kernel. i.e 1 before the next release for Arch's 2.6.22. Also from the ubuntu thread it seems to be happening cross distro as well.
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Well it gives "no such device" error when I modprobe ibm_acpi. I also got /proc/acpi/fan folder empty. I have latest BIOS. Last night I installed Gentoo desktop to that laptop and in morning after allnight compiling it was still running so it doesn't actually overheat. Weird.
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