notebook fan runs on idle system

Sat Apr 23 02:56:38 UTC 2005

On Sat, 2005-04-23 at 01:03 +0200, Ziga Mahkovec wrote:
> Do you have any of the frequency governors installed?  cpuspeed should
> work fine.  Make sure the "centrino" driver is specified
> in /etc/cpuspeed.conf and that the cpuspeed service is running.  There's
> also a nifty GNOME applet, if you feel like setting the frequency
> manually.

Both cpufreq-utils and cpuspeed were not installed on my system.  Is it
intentional or a mistake that these packages are not installed by
default on systems capable of frequency scaling?

I installed them now my laptop is quiet like expected.  

Thanks!

Marty