Re: [gentoo-user] OT: Southbridge chip on laptop overheating

2015-06-12 Thread Marc Joliet
Am Sun, 07 Jun 2015 15:15:14 -0700 schrieb Daniel Frey djqf...@gmail.com: Hi all, Not really Gentoo-related (well except the overheating part - lots of compiling ;-) ) I have a very old laptop. It is an LG F1 laptop (circa 2005/2006 I believe) about nine years old. This has a Core2

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: Southbridge chip on laptop overheating

2015-06-12 Thread Daniel Frey
On 06/12/2015 12:32 AM, Marc Joliet wrote: With a Fujitsu Lifebook A530 that I lent from the University I had the problem that it can overheat and actually shut down. However, I semi-recently discovered thermald, which has (in its default configuration state) successfully kept it from

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: Southbridge chip on laptop overheating

2015-06-08 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
Am 08.06.2015 um 00:15 schrieb Daniel Frey: Hi all, Not really Gentoo-related (well except the overheating part - lots of compiling ;-) ) I have a very old laptop. It is an LG F1 laptop (circa 2005/2006 I believe) about nine years old. This has a Core2 1.6GHz chip and 4GB RAM, even though

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: Southbridge chip on laptop overheating

2015-06-08 Thread Daniel Frey
On 06/08/2015 03:47 PM, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: are you sure it is overheating and not operating within spec? A lot of laptops have 'hot spots'. I've had this laptop for a really long time, and it's getting hot where I normally rest my right wrist while typing. I would have noticed

[gentoo-user] OT: Southbridge chip on laptop overheating

2015-06-07 Thread Daniel Frey
Hi all, Not really Gentoo-related (well except the overheating part - lots of compiling ;-) ) I have a very old laptop. It is an LG F1 laptop (circa 2005/2006 I believe) about nine years old. This has a Core2 1.6GHz chip and 4GB RAM, even though it only sees 3GB (that should tell you it's pretty