Dominik Grafenhofer wrote: > Hi, > > I am experiencing overheating problems with my Compaq nc6120 laptop. I have > installed opensuse 10.2 recently. Subjectively I noticed that the laptop is > getting hotter than usual (I previously used ubuntu 5.10 - kernel 2.6.12). > Under load (updating the distro with yast + running openoffice and a brower > sufficies) I get temperature shutdowns after a few minutes. It seems that in > termal zone 4 a critical temperature is reached (ie. more that 110 degrees > C). > > I knew this phenomenon already from ubuntu 5.10 (and also from mandriva > 2006). > Adding noapic and nolapic as boot parameters helped to tackle this problem. > With opensuse 10.2 (incl. all updates) this did not really change the problem > (although I subjectlively think that it now takes longer for the temperature > shutdown to occur). > > I tried different combinations of boot parameters + updated the bios to the > most recent version. I also tried to exclude the acpi module fan from loading > (which was one of the hints I found on the web). > > Using more recent kernels (from an opensuse repository) does not alter the > problem either! > > The only "solution" up to now is to use the "energy saving" cpu throttling > (800 Mhz instead of 2.1 GhZ). Then laptop does not overheat, but it is of > course a lot slower. > > On ubuntu 5.10 together with kernel 2.6.12 everthing still works smoothly > (without throttling the cpu down), so I suspect, that there is some kind of > misconfiguration problem on my side, or a bug in opensuse or more likely the > kernel. > > What do you think? Many thanks in advance! > > Best, Dominik > > Detailed info: > > /proc/cmdline: > http://www.grafenhofer.at/nc6120/cmdline > > /proc/cpuinfo: > http://www.grafenhofer.at/nc6120/cpuinfo > > /proc/modules: > http://www.grafenhofer.at/nc6120/modules > > /proc/version: > http://www.grafenhofer.at/nc6120/version > > lspci: > http://www.grafenhofer.at/nc6120/lspci > > cat /proc/acpi/thermal_zone/TZ*/*: > http://www.grafenhofer.at/nc6120/TZ Hi, I cannot help you with this, but I would recommend that you should monitor closely and exactly, what is going on in regard to fan speed and temperature.
Lm-sensors is handy for this. There is a nice frontend for KDE (ksensors, I believe) and xsensors also works for non KDE desktops regards and good luck Eberhard -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
