[Mageia-discuss] Laptop running hot

[Morgan Leijström]

söndagen den 12 augusti 2012 01.51.34 skrev  Liam R E Quin:
> On Fri, 2012-08-10 at 12:39 +0300, Max Quarterpleen wrote:
> > On Fri, Aug 10, 2012 at 12:20 AM, Liam R E Quin <liam at holoweb.net> wrote:
> > > How are you determining that it's hot? Is it just that the fan is
> > > always running? Does booting with noapic help?
> > 
> > By running gkrellm and seeing that the temperature monitor on the HDD is
> > not climbing above 40C.

Can you see CPU and GPU temperature ?

Can you see fan speed?

> Erm, this sounds like your system is *not* running hot, but that the fan
> is always on.

On T61my HD is cooler than that even when CPU is working hard and is 80 C

> 
> It's difficult to guess from such incomplete information. You could try
> running "powertop" in a console (konsole?) and see, but I think you said
> your CPUs were not at 100% busy. So it might be a bios issue with your
> laptop, e.g. needing a special boot option with the latest kernel.

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Morgan Leijström