<blockquote style="margin:0 0 0 40px;border:none;padding:0px"></blockquote><span style="font-family:monospace;white-space:pre-wrap;font-size:medium">>><i> I have Thinkpad T500 laptop with Fedora 14 KDE installed. Before the KDE</i></span><br>
<blockquote style="margin:0 0 0 40px;border:none;padding:0px"></blockquote><span style="font-family:monospace;white-space:pre-wrap;font-size:medium">>><i> 4.6 update the idle CPU temperature was ~42C. However after the update the</i></span><br>
<blockquote style="margin:0 0 0 40px;border:none;padding:0px"></blockquote><span style="font-family:monospace;white-space:pre-wrap;font-size:medium">>><i> CPU temperature varies between 48-50C.</i></span><br>
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</span></font><blockquote style="margin:0 0 0 40px;border:none;padding:0px"></blockquote><span style="font-family:monospace;white-space:pre-wrap;font-size:medium">> 50°C is a perfectly safe temperature for your CPU.</span><div>
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</span></font><blockquote style="margin:0 0 0 40px;border:none;padding:0px"></blockquote><span style="font-family:monospace;white-space:pre-wrap;font-size:medium">>><i> I noticed that the lm_sensors-lib package was also updated so I downgraded</i></span><br>
<blockquote style="margin:0 0 0 40px;border:none;padding:0px"></blockquote><span style="font-family:monospace;white-space:pre-wrap;font-size:medium">>><i> it. But it didn't help. Testing the initial Fedora 14 KDE LiveUSB the CPU</i></span><br>
<blockquote style="margin:0 0 0 40px;border:none;padding:0px"></blockquote><span style="font-family:monospace;white-space:pre-wrap;font-size:medium">>><i> temperature was about 40C so it's not hardware problem.</i></span><br>
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</span></font><blockquote style="margin:0 0 0 40px;border:none;padding:0px"></blockquote><span style="font-family:monospace;white-space:pre-wrap;font-size:medium">> The change may be related to the fact that KDE's PowerDevil was using HAL </span><br>
<blockquote style="margin:0 0 0 40px;border:none;padding:0px"></blockquote><span style="font-family:monospace;white-space:pre-wrap;font-size:medium">> for power management, and now uses upower instead.</span></div>
<div><font face="monospace" size="3"><span style="white-space:pre-wrap"><br></span></font></div><div><font face="monospace" size="3"><span style="white-space:pre-wrap">I thought upower doesn't influence the fan speeds. I would appreciate if you'll point me for some differences between HAL and upower.<br>
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</span></font><blockquote style="margin:0 0 0 40px;border:none;padding:0px"></blockquote><span style="font-family:monospace;white-space:pre-wrap;font-size:medium">>><i> I did notice that the fan speeds differ from the LiveUSB system now (e.g.</i></span><br>
<blockquote style="margin:0 0 0 40px;border:none;padding:0px"></blockquote><span style="font-family:monospace;white-space:pre-wrap;font-size:medium">>><i> for the same temperature LiveUSB fan speed is higher - so the CPU temp is</i></span><br>
<blockquote style="margin:0 0 0 40px;border:none;padding:0px"></blockquote><span style="font-family:monospace;white-space:pre-wrap;font-size:medium">>><i> lower).</i></span><br>
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</span></font><blockquote style="margin:0 0 0 40px;border:none;padding:0px"></blockquote><span style="font-family:monospace;white-space:pre-wrap;font-size:medium">>Lower fan speed = less noise and less power consumption.</span></div>
<div><font face="monospace" size="3"><span style="white-space:pre-wrap"><br></span></font></div><div><font face="monospace" size="3"><span style="white-space:pre-wrap">You know, right now the fan speed is much more aggressive and I have no idea why it changed. I just wonder if there is some kind of config for fan control. <br>
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</span></font><blockquote style="margin:0 0 0 40px;border:none;padding:0px"></blockquote><span style="font-family:monospace;white-space:pre-wrap;font-size:medium">>So why are you complaining? :-)</span></div>
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</blockquote><pre><font size="3">It's just the new behavior and it's unusual :)</font></pre>-- <br><div>Regards,</div>Yaroslav Sapozhnyk<br><br><br>
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