Fan control with nouveau controller ?

[Sam Varshavchik]

Linuxguy123 writes:

> On Fri, 2011-04-08 at 19:46 -0600, Linuxguy123 wrote:
> > I'm running a fully up to date F14 installation on my laptop.
> >
> > For various reasons today I uninstalled the nvidia driver and installed
> > the nouveau driver.   My laptop has a GeForce 8800 GTS video card.
> >
> > Everything works but I can hear the video fan running constantly which
> > is annoying and wasteful of the battery.
> >
> > How do I get the video fan under control ?
>
> For whatever reason, my video fan just throttled down. ????  Something
> to do with the first run ?

Are you certain that you're hearing the GPU fan, and not the CPU fan?

You might've had anacron kick a few things into action. If it was time to  
catch up on an overdue run of prelink, this will keep the CPU noticeably  
busy, for a few minutes.

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