hi list, some time ago i asked about differences in thermal-management between 2.4 series kernels and 2.6 series kernels, since with a 2.6 kernel the tibook seems to get a lot hotter than with a 2.4 kernel.
i then tried some older 2.6 kernels because i was told that the change was made somewhere in the early 2.6 releases and not at the switch from 2.4 to 2.6. but even with the earliest 2.6 kernels the system still gets very hot and the fan will run continuously. i then booted macos (10.3.4 IIRC) and to my great dissapointment the system stayed cool and the fan would only start running if the system actually had something to do (like opening a so called "popunder" ad with lots of bells and whistles in firefox). this shows that there _is_ a way of keeping the system cool, even if it is one of those rotten tibooks. but i don't want to use macos. or in other words i just can't stand it (from my usability point of view it's even worse than windows, despite the fact that it actually is a real unix inside, but all that apple-gui-junk makes me puke my guts out). now the actual question is: why is the thing getting that hot when running linux? i tried anything from disabling each and every daemon, shutting down the harddisk, disabling x, and still, even with a load average of 0.00 and the harddisk turned off, the system's getting damn hot and the fan would run continuously. any help is appreciated! thanks in advance and best regards, alexander
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