On Fri, 10 Apr 2009 07:51:31 -0400 (EDT) "Robert P. J. Day" rpjday@crashcourse.ca wrote:
(while i'm on a roll ...)
on this gateway m-1626, shortly after f11 beta starts to run, the cooling fan kicks into this regular oscillation with a period of about 4 seconds -- speed up, slow down, speed up, slow down ... you get the idea.
to test that it's not a HW issue, i rebooted and hopped into the BIOS and let it sit there for several minutes, whereupon it ran nice and smoothly the entire time.
as soon as i rebooted fedora and got to my GNOME desktop, the oscillation started up again. occasionally, it will calm down briefly but that doesn't last long.
anyone else seeing this?
I'd say, file a bug.
Try playing with the GOVERNOR, MIN_SPEED and MAX_SPEED variables in /etc/sysconfig/cpuspeed as well, and include the results in your bug report.
Cheers
François