[ale] laptop running very hot!

[mute wonder]

Check through the system logs for suspicious errors.  You might have the
right drivers, but power management just didn't get configured safely...it
would list errors about power levels triggering or not triggering.



>>> 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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