RH wierd one

[troy]

It's almost certainly a power management issue.  Specifically, when not
busy, the OS should send the CPU a "halt" instruction, basically telling
it chill out and take a break.  That might not be happening.

You might check /boot/grub/grub.conf (or /etc/lilo.conf if using LILO)
and make sure that the "no-hlt" option is not being passed to the
kernel.

I'm not sure how old this computer is.  Do you happen to know if it uses
APM or ACPI for power management?  

Also, I assume the computer is mostly idle after completely booting, can
you verify that with the output from the "top" command?  The three Load
Average #'s should all be near 0.00 if the computer is just sitting
there.

unless we get lucky with the no hlt thing, we'll probably see you for
round two :)

-ta

On Thu, Jan 23, 2003 at 08:30:24PM -0800, Sue Bennett wrote:
> 
> This is one for the folks who support RH on multiple hardware 
> types.
> 
> At last weekends Installfest I gave up on SuSE and with some 
> help, installed RH 8.0.  So far so good, but one wierd thing is 
> going on.
> 
> First of all, my machine is a Sony Vaio 650 (not a loptop) that 
> is about 1 year old.  I have set the machine up as dual bootable 
> with Linux and the Windows XP that came on the machine.  As this 
> machine boots up a fan? comes on in "high" gear.   This occurs 
> with both Linux and XP.   After the system comes up completely 
> this fan noise goes into "low" gear in Windows.   It also 
> quieted down when my machine was running SuSE but with RH it  
> stays in "high" gear until the system is shut down.
> 
> At first I thought it might be the CD/RW or the CD/DVD drive 
> spinning.  Someone at work suggested I open both trays at once 
> and see if the noise stopped.  Negitive.  
> 
> So, any ideas?  
> 
> Thanks.
> 
> Still a newbie,
> Sue