From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S265423AbUATMhI (ORCPT ); Tue, 20 Jan 2004 07:37:08 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S265431AbUATMhI (ORCPT ); Tue, 20 Jan 2004 07:37:08 -0500 Received: from kluizenaar.xs4all.nl ([213.84.184.247]:2900 "EHLO samwel.tk") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S265423AbUATMhG (ORCPT ); Tue, 20 Jan 2004 07:37:06 -0500 From: Bart Samwel To: Tommi Virtanen , Lorenzo Hernandez Garcia-Hierro Subject: Re: Noise with 2.6.0 in a Dell Laptop ( Latitude c600 ) Date: Tue, 20 Jan 2004 13:36:53 +0100 User-Agent: KMail/1.5.4 Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org References: <1073488405.850.35.camel@zeus> <4003F998.4020104@tv.debian.net> In-Reply-To: <4003F998.4020104@tv.debian.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200401201336.54113.bart@samwel.tk> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Tuesday 13 January 2004 14:58, Tommi Virtanen wrote: > Lorenzo Hernandez Garcia-Hierro wrote: > > When the 2.6.0 inits in my laptop it becomes reaaallyyy noisy. > > Why ? > > If it's the fans, it's the BIOS reading CPU temperature of 85 C, > which is not true. It seems a Fn-Z press resets this reading to > sane values. You can look at the temperature reading and fan > state with i8kutils. > > Atleast that's what a Dell Latitude C640 that I had did. Might it be that the hardware reports 85 F instead of 85 C maybe? That's about (85-32)*0.55 = about 29 C, which may be more realistic when you're just booting it up. :) -- Bart