overheated laptop - solved??

[Ow Mun Heng]

On Mon, 2004-12-06 at 11:34, sly wrote:
> Ow Mun Heng wrote:
> > On Wed, 2004-12-01 at 13:48, sly wrote:
> > 
> >>thom at customnetworks.ca wrote:
> >>
> >>>I couldn't find the thread start for this as I'm not at the office, but I
> > 
> > 
> >>ok! i installed gkrellm but it does not have any options for fans. so i 
> >>got i8krellm but can't install it cuz i need i8kutils. so i got this one 
> >>too. only that this is over my knowledge. i did make - ok; i did make 
> >>install - ok. but it's not ok because i can't find i8k.o. i read i had 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > YOu need to load the i8k module.
> > 
> > you can try on a command line : (as root)
> > $ modprobe i8k
> 
>   did it! No such device!

I'm not sure if its compiled by the Fedora kenrel. I usually roll my own
kernel, and there's the i8k option.
CONFIG_I8K=m


> 
> but! what's interesting is that now it works fine. stays at 55C. as far 
> as i know, i didn't do anything. for some reason it is good!
> thanx for the help!
> 
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Ow Mun Heng
Gentoo/Linux on D600 1.4Ghz 
Neuromancer 17:32:25 up 8:13, 4 users, 0.66, 0.66, 0.51