From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1E8MSL-0005ps-4l for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 25 Aug 2005 18:28:05 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with SMTP id j7PIOjXX023542; Thu, 25 Aug 2005 18:24:45 GMT Received: from zproxy.gmail.com (zproxy.gmail.com [64.233.162.201]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id j7PIG6Wd016381 for ; Thu, 25 Aug 2005 18:16:07 GMT Received: by zproxy.gmail.com with SMTP id x7so249399nzc for ; Thu, 25 Aug 2005 11:17:17 -0700 (PDT) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=Xxgbdhy7qRuQ/ffj6xfe2/e/FPIJsbirzCvChmGuLVfVqThzRzjZOZLzEVfDBJGggnk8Dn5L9dQ7qyX2D+zD3Fwvm6Ct9B6tHyv5ABoXO6D4hvAo38qry3nosTfDpdiZH6MuPaXIG2iDmEn07I5QAk4x4AFPrnoSI6yQDw79LFM= Received: by 10.36.55.10 with SMTP id d10mr123186nza; Thu, 25 Aug 2005 11:17:17 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.36.58.18 with HTTP; Thu, 25 Aug 2005 11:17:17 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <5bdc1c8b05082511175b92f62d@mail.gmail.com> Date: Thu, 25 Aug 2005 11:17:17 -0700 From: Mark Knecht To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] fan noise in recent kernels In-Reply-To: <001101c5a984$8b5bbeb0$3a01010a@jnetlab.lcl> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline References: <5bdc1c8b050825071079823bbb@mail.gmail.com> <001101c5a984$8b5bbeb0$3a01010a@jnetlab.lcl> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by robin.gentoo.org id j7PIG6Wd016381 X-Archives-Salt: 943a106a-3677-47d9-af75-169606aa6040 X-Archives-Hash: ea65d3d9b5730bb84ecb2a8ac456beab On 8/25/05, Dave Nebinger wrote: > > Maybe I'm imagining things but it seems that all of my machines > > have gotten noticibly noisier with some of the most recent kernels, > > ala 2.6.12-gentoo-r6 or -r9. Has anyone else noticed this? This > > observation comes from both a couple of Pundit-R's running > > mythfrontend as well as an Intel-based backend/general purpose > > machine. > > My first guess would be that this is not related to the kernel version, but > is more related to the aging of the fan(s) themselves. Fans do wear out > over time (just had a switch that had two fans start squealing this week > that needed changed). > > I'd suggest replacing the fans with some newer ones. Go the expensive route > and get those quiet fans, especially for the myth box (last thing you want > to hear is a fan when watching myth). > > Of course you can verify all of this by installing an old kernel and > determine if the noise level drops, but I'd be very surprised if that is the > case. Hi Dave, Possible, but it seems to be a marked increase in noise, as well as two of the machines (the Pundit-R's) being quite new. Installing an old kernel is a possibility but I hoped to determine what sort of control Linux gives me over this part of the hardware before I went that direction. I Was at Fry's looking at new motherboards today and saw in the gamer's motherboards applciations for changing overclocking, CPU voltages, fan RPM, and lots of other stuff from within Windows, along with the ability to write it back to BIOS so that it's there for the next boot. I've not looked into this sort of stuff under Linux before. Thanks, Mark -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list