[Pm-utils] sometimes on resume, fan very loud until power off

Stefan Seyfried seife at suse.de
Sat Dec 2 12:57:22 PST 2006


On Sat, Dec 02, 2006 at 01:11:07PM -0600, John H. wrote:
> I try to suspend again when this is happening, and monitor goes off,
> but laptop does not go into suspend.
> 
> On 12/2/06, John H. <mistamaila at gmail.com> wrote:
> >I just resumed and the fan problem is back.  I cat'd that file and it
> >says ondemand.

I'd say some driver and / or some userspace process has gone berzerk.

Does "top" show you anything consuming 100% CPU?
What modules are loaded on your machine prior to suspending?

BTW: did you try my "kick-fan" hook i sent you in the first answer in this
     thread?
-- 
Stefan Seyfried
QA / R&D Team Mobile Devices        |              "Any ideas, John?"
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