Hello,

> After a night of idling with no network or serial processes going, the fan
> has not returned to its previously low volume it had attained after I added
> power saving to cpu_subr.c for 604s. This leads me to conclude that in the
> locore_subr.S Idle() routine, the power save enabling is not reached or is
> reached very rarely. This implies that things stay in lcsplx a lot. It's
> not at the previous volume that was becoming intolerable (and got louder
> when compiling), but louder than it had been.

Stupid question - is this power saving stuff active for G4 CPUs? My iBook doesn't cool down when being idle, it only seems to heats up a little slower than under full load. 

have fun
Michael