On Sun, 2006-04-02 at 20:25 +0100, Chris Jones wrote: > > Has anyone experience similar problems or have suggestions to control > > temps? > > I've been running FC on a Dell 8600 (since FC1) and have always used gkrellm > with the dell i8k plugin to control the cpu fans. basically this uses the > i8k fan utilities to turn the fans on/off at thresholds you can set. I have > found this very reliable. I ran gkrellm under FC4 with no problem, but since I switched to FC5, the fan controls only work when the system is not idle. Are you running FC4 or 5? Clifford