> Satish Balay wrote: >> On Mon, 29 Nov 2004, sly wrote: >> >> >>>see, i did not have this temperature issues before on fc2 about 6 >>> month ago. nor under win xp. the fan used to kick in at high speed, >>> cool down and fan speed used to slow down to min. >> >> >> 6 months is a long time - the hardware could have deteriorated. FC2 & > > yeah. under xp doesn't heat up this much. > >> FC3 now have similar kernels. Anyway - were you using APM instead of >> ACPI with FC2? > > acpi. i wasn't paying too much attention till it started burning my > fingers and sometimes shutting down because of overheating - 80C. > >> >> As you suspect - there could be something else going on. This is a >> "don't know" zone for me. > > i wish i had more time to spend on this. already lost few nights of > sleep. :) > I couldn't find the thread start for this as I'm not at the office, but I installed gkrellm with the i8k extensions for my dell Inspiron 8200 laptop. I can control the fan speed or let the computer do it. Mine runs nicely at 40 - 45 C and 1200MHz. I can speed up to 1700MHz and the fans kick in and run pretty loud. Hope this helps.
