- I have Thinkpad T500 laptop with Fedora 14 KDE installed. Before the KDE
*
- 4.6 update the idle CPU temperature was ~42C. However after the update
the*
- CPU temperature varies between 48-50C.*
50°C is a perfectly safe temperature for your CPU.
- I noticed that the lm_sensors-lib package was also updated so I
downgraded*
- it. But it didn't help. Testing the initial Fedora 14 KDE LiveUSB the
CPU*
- temperature was about 40C so it's not hardware problem.*
The change may be related to the fact that KDE's PowerDevil was using HAL
for power management, and now uses upower instead.
I thought upower doesn't influence the fan speeds. I would appreciate if you'll point me for some differences between HAL and upower.
- I did notice that the fan speeds differ from the LiveUSB system now
(e.g.*
- for the same temperature LiveUSB fan speed is higher - so the CPU temp
is*
- lower).*
Lower fan speed = less noise and less power consumption.
You know, right now the fan speed is much more aggressive and I have no idea why it changed. I just wonder if there is some kind of config for fan control.
So why are you complaining? :-)
It's just the new behavior and it's unusual :)