Comment 37 for bug 1179282

Hi,

I think, the root cause, why we all want to use i8k is on the one hand the sensor features, but the more interresting thing on the other hand, the control of the fan to avaid unneeded noise.

In the meanwhile, I figured out that the noise can be nearly completely avoided by using powertop.

Just install it and open it by using "sudo powertop".
On the last tab "Einstellungen" (in the german version), you can improve the the setting of the system, to avoid unneeded Controller-Wakeups and even a few things more.
Usually, I set everything to "Good" except the wlan-Interface (wlan not, because this leads to bad wifi-connection).

Perhaps this helps some of you.
With powertop, you won't hear the fan as long as you do normal office stuff (browser, office, editor, ...).
For sure, the fan will get active if you run any application which will stress the cpu/gpu.

Have a nice day,
raphzahn