[ale] laptop running very hot!

[Greg Clifton]

Yes, lm sensors will report the temps and such. However, he already knows
that the system is running hot. I think the solution he is looking for is
how to make the power management play nice with his shiny new F-15 OS. I
suspect it is not cycling the cooling fan(s) since the system overheats to
the point of hardware failure. But I haven't a clue as to how to tell F-15
to turn it/them on when needed.

On Fri, Jun 24, 2011 at 5:29 PM, Preston Boyington
<preston.lists at gmail.com>wrote:

> Jim Philips wrote:
> > I have an HP DV7 4060-us. On Windows 7, it never runs more than
> > lukewarm. But on Fedora 15, running KDE, it gets blazing hot even when
> > it's sitting idle. If I run top, I don't see more than 6% CPU
> > consumption. On one occasion, it got so hot I started having hardware
> > failures, but the damage wasn't permanent. Obviously, I'm now scared to
> > leave F15 running for any length of time. Are there any diagnostics I
> > can run that would tell me what's going on?
> >
>
> lm_sensors?  i believe that is what it is in an rpm system (debian it is
> lm-sensors if memory serves)
>
> possibly "yum install lm_sensors" followed by running "sensors-detect"
> as root.
>
> to have sensors read in Fahrenheit would be "sensors -f"
>
> now i have to go wash my hands... ugh, red hat commands...
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