On Fri, 10 Nov 2017 20:37:43 -0500 Kevin Cozens via talk <talk@gtalug.org> wrote:
On 2017-11-10 03:31 PM, Giles Orr via talk wrote:
I have a very old laptop I'm trying to rehabilitate and use with Debian: it's got an AMD Turion chip and 1G of RAM. Works fine. But one annoying problem under Linux: the fan runs flat out all the time. If the fan connection to the MB is only two pins it may not have the ability to operate at anything other than full speed. Check the MB
keyword, 'may' on my notebook the main fan has two pins but it has variable speed... so i guess ymmv so +1 for checking the manual or contact manufacturer website/support
manual. As this is a laptop you may find it hard to locate information about fan control. You could add a circuit to do variable speed control of the fan but it may be difficult, if not impossible, to fit it in to the laptop case.
again depending on notebook/laptop model... many of the older models (before space became such a fixating factor) actually has lots of crawl space, just yesterday i added some custom components to one of my old HP's and recall thinking how cool it is that it can all fit inside the case :) Andre