[ale] laptop running very hot!

[Jim Philips]

Somebody on the Fedora forums suggested that the issue may be in the video
card driver. I'm going to install the ATI driver and see what happens.

On Fri, Jun 24, 2011 at 5:57 PM, Greg Clifton <gccfof5 at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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