This is strange. My old Toshiba laptop works much better with Linux.
Only under Windows does the fan play up. Normally staying on when not
needed.
Regards, Philip.
On 01/11/2008, Clive Woodfine <clivewoodfine@???> wrote:
> This may be of interest to users Toshiba Laptops running Debian based OS's.
>
> I have noticed my Satellite 4090XCDT seemed to get slower and slower
> and hotter and hotter the longer it is on. I can hear the CPU fan
> running but the main fan is never on. I have had the machine apart and
> found the fan worked if a voltage is applied directly.
>
> Searching google came up with this web site [1]. Surprisingly the
> package 'toshset' is available in the Debian repositories. With this
> the fan can switched on/off and other Toshiba utilities used.
>
> Thanks everyone for a good day at the BaB.
>
> [1] http://www.buzzard.me.uk/toshiba/index.html
>
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