cooling fan is oscillating regularly once f11 beta starts to run
François Cami
fcami at fedoraproject.org
Fri Apr 10 16:06:01 UTC 2009
On Fri, 10 Apr 2009 07:51:31 -0400 (EDT)
"Robert P. J. Day" <rpjday at crashcourse.ca> wrote:
>
> (while i'm on a roll ...)
>
> on this gateway m-1626, shortly after f11 beta starts to run, the
> cooling fan kicks into this regular oscillation with a period of about
> 4 seconds -- speed up, slow down, speed up, slow down ... you get the
> idea.
>
> to test that it's not a HW issue, i rebooted and hopped into the
> BIOS and let it sit there for several minutes, whereupon it ran nice
> and smoothly the entire time.
>
> as soon as i rebooted fedora and got to my GNOME desktop, the
> oscillation started up again. occasionally, it will calm down briefly
> but that doesn't last long.
>
> anyone else seeing this?
I'd say, file a bug.
Try playing with the GOVERNOR, MIN_SPEED and MAX_SPEED variables in
/etc/sysconfig/cpuspeed as well, and include the results in your bug
report.
Cheers
François
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