On Sat, 27 Nov 2004, sly wrote:
i have 2 laptops: a dell inspiron 8000 (p3) and a dell inspiron 5100 (p4). the p3 has fc2 and runs perfect! on the other side the p4 had fc2 and had overheating problems. now i installed fc3 and it still has overheating problems. the fen runs continuously and the temperature is at 68C average. sometimes it reaches the critical 80C and it shuts off. i wasn't able to find any helpful info on the web or i just didn't know where to look. any helpful info would be appreciated.
Well - P4 chips are power hungry - so that could be an unsolveable problem. Is it a mobile P4? If so - it should support speedstep. Does it work?
Try the following: # grep MHz /proc/cpuinfo model name : Intel(R) Pentium(R) M processor 1600MHz cpu MHz : 598.068
this is the output before:
# grep Hz /proc/cpuinfo model name : Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 2.80GHz cpu MHz : 2791.430
and this folder is empty:
/sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/
i don't have the files you were telling me about.
i've followed the link u gave me, changed 'speedstep-smi' to 'p4-clockmod' (which is for p4) not 'peedstep-ich':
edit /etc/cpuspeed.conf, modify the DRIVER line to read:
DRIVER="p4-clockmod"
add this line into /etc/modprobe.conf:
options p4-clockmod smi_port=0xb2 smi_cmd=0x82 smi_sig=1
and now i get this output:
# grep Hz /proc/cpuinfo model name : Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 2.80GHz cpu MHz : 348.921
the files in this folder were created:
# ls /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/cpufreq/ cpuinfo_cur_freq scaling_available_governors scaling_max_freq cpuinfo_max_freq scaling_cur_freq scaling_min_freq cpuinfo_min_freq scaling_driver scaling_setspeed scaling_available_frequencies scaling_governor
and i see the cpu speed varies now. i'm trying to find out if this will influence the temperature. i'll give it a little time.
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