[laptop-discuss] Fan speed control on laptops

[Aurélien Larcher]

Hi,

I've installed SXCE b75 yesterday on my Thinkpad z60t (I think it's truly awesome, all worked out of the box).
I run fkrit to install acpidrv (+ other packages) and the CPU frequency scaling is enabled (pentium m dothan inside).
I didn't thing that was so easy ...

Then I noticed that my laptop was "silent", the fan keeps rotating at (very) low speed.
That's not a problem for general tasks that don't require intensive calculations, but if I run some floating point
intensive code the cpu temperature climbs quickly up to 80° celsius.

Is there a way to activate the fan under high load ?

(I've read in another post there's no thermal sensor support yet)

Thanks,

Aurélien
 
 
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