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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
greetings, kinky
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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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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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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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