Fan+heat troubles on MacBook Pro

[Jon Masters]

On Mon, 2010-11-29 at 08:22 -0800, Steven Noonan wrote:

> Chris, you could try to test and see if applesmc is the cause. Try
> preventing applesmc from loading (add 'blacklist applesmc' to
> /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist.conf), and see if your fans still stay at
> 2000 RPM under CPU-heavy workloads. Of course, you'll have to just
> listen to find out if the fans spin up instead of checking sysfs, but
> this will at least help debug the situation.

After booting, verify it wasn't for some reason in the initramfs by
running:

lsmod | grep applesmc

Check that it's not loaded (should not see anything listed).

Jon.