On Mon, Aug 13, 2012 at 12:20 AM, Morgan Leijström <[email protected]> wrote:
> söndagen den 12 augusti 2012 01.51.34 skrev Liam R E Quin: > > On Fri, 2012-08-10 at 12:39 +0300, Max Quarterpleen wrote: > > > On Fri, Aug 10, 2012 at 12:20 AM, Liam R E Quin <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > > How are you determining that it's hot? Is it just that the fan is > > > > always running? Does booting with noapic help? > > > > > > By running gkrellm and seeing that the temperature monitor on the HDD > is > > > not climbing above 40C. > > Can you see CPU and GPU temperature ? > > Nope. > Can you see fan speed? > > Nope. Maybe I'm missing some packages...? > > Erm, this sounds like your system is *not* running hot, but that the fan > > is always on. > > On T61my HD is cooler than that even when CPU is working hard and is 80 C > > > > > It's difficult to guess from such incomplete information. You could try > > running "powertop" in a console (konsole?) and see, but I think you said > > your CPUs were not at 100% busy. So it might be a bios issue with your > > laptop, e.g. needing a special boot option with the latest kernel. > > -- > Morgan Leijström >
