X300: Annoying fan (loud and almost constanly running)

Hello,
after having my X300 for about 3 weeks now there are a few things that I'm not very happy with. The most annoying part in this laptop is definitly the fan!
After poweron it takes only a few minutes till the fan is spinning at Level 1 (2000 RPM - that's ok, because it's almost impossible to hear).
But after some more minutes (of almost no load) the fan goes to level 2 (about 5000 RPM).
As a result, temperatures fall but the fan doesn't go off. If I produce some more heat (OpenGL Game) the fan will even speed up more
(level 5, ~ 5700 RPM) but it won't go down later.
Here's a little gnuplot of all I said:
http://0je.de/pub/temp/x300_fan_01.png
Some information about my system:
Linux 2.6.25
ThinkPad BIOS 7TET25WW (1.02 ), EC 7THT15WW-1.00c
And some more: Why are there no fan speeds between level 1 and 2? Theres a difference of about 3000 RPM there ... (impossible to hear vs.
quite annoying).

I complained about the noise and the missing control of fan speed using the Lenovo-Support-Form. After some days I got a flat answer telling me that software-support is only available till 30 days after purchase.
IBM/Lenovo wrote:
Danke fuer ihr Interesse am IBM Electronic Software Support.
IBM/Lenovo stellt freie Software Unterstuetzung nur fuer die ersten 30 Tage
nach Kauf eines Geraetes zur Verfuegung.
Are they unable to read (I also included a link to this thread) or are they just unwilling to fix the problem?
Maybe everyone else should use that support-form, too. Here we go:
Link
Mod shortened URL to avoid breaking page format
Message Edited by Tim_Lenovo on 06-17-2008 05:23 PM

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