[SLUG] Linux 2.6.15: Let's cook pizza

From: Dylan Hardison (dylanwh@gmail.com)
Date: Sat Mar 04 2006 - 23:38:19 EST


It seems kernels newer than 2.6.11, and especially 2.6.15,
by default won't turn the fan on when ACPI is enabled, until the
temperate is at "critical". That is usually 98C.

This is such a nice feature. I'm sure I could have cooked a pizza or
two on my old laptop before it died, had I not been trying to figure
out why the fan was off...
This problem seems to crop up on any laptop running a kernel newer
than 2.6.11...

Joking aside... Is there any way of making the fan turn on, short of acpi=off?
This seems to happen regardless of ACPI version, too. And besides
that, it used to
work in 2.6.11...

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