Hi, I'm currently looking at a whole bunch of options to prevent my laptop from overheating (this appears to be a known issue with the Dell Inspiron 5150). I've just read a whole bunch of stuff on using i8k to let the CPU fan come in at an earlier temperature and thought it would be worth a go. Note that I'm using Ubuntu, but the setup / situation should be the same (and this list is full of laptop wizards ;).
My installation doesn't have i8k by default so I tried to modprobe it. modprobe said that the device cannot be found. A modprobe with force=1 worked, but running i8kctl then just returns some rather bogus results (I think): [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ i8kctl 1.0 (null) 222P91S 59 -1 2 -1 113160 0 2 Now according to some documentation I found floating on the net, the Inspiron 5150 is meant to be supported by i8k but only with particular revisions of the BIOS. Is it possible to find out which revisions and what revision I'm currently running? Google just hasn't been helping me with this one tonight :(. Also, any general overheating help would be most appreciated. I've tried a couple things now: Disable apmd. Run on a non-SMP kernel instead. All to no avail. There are some hardware related solutions that I might avoid (until I get this working at least) since I didn't have the same overheating issues under WinXP (which hopefully means there is a software fix ;). Thanks, - Mab -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
