Asus A2500 series laptop temperature issues
 

Hi,
I have an Asus A2500 series laptop (more precise: ASUS A2516DBH, AMD Mobile Athlon XP 2600+, 256MB, 30GB HD, DVD/CDRW Combo, ATI Mobility Radeon 9600 Pro 64MB). I use Gentoo with a 2.6.7 kernel, and everything works fine. However, the fan does not go offline automatically as it does in windows. I found out by looking in the /proc/acpi files that the temperature never goes under 57°C, which is quite strange, since in Windows, it usually lies around 50°C. In the Kernel, I switched Powernow support, CPU Frequency scaling on. Under heavy workload, it goes up to 64°C, which is normal (its the same as in Windows). Any ideas how to deal with this strange issue?

Re: Asus A2500 series laptop temperature issues
 

I have an Asus A2500H-Combo, and I am having the same kind of 'problems' that you have. My laptop never goes under 67°C. You say that you switched to Powernow support, and CPU Frequency scaling on. Where did you do that, bios?

I don't think there is any solution to this problem. I know that asus is not going to be my first choice when I'm thinking of buying a new laptop.

I solved it, stupid me forgot to enable speedfreq.

For a more detailed explanation, here's how I set up gentoo for my A2500D:
http://dv.dword.org/stuff/asus-a2d-howto.txt

Thinking about it, this laptop runs very fine with gentoo now. So asus laptops aren't a bad idea at all when choosing a linux-friendly laptop.