Re: overheated laptop

[Ow Mun Heng <Ow Mun Heng wdc com>]

On Wed, 2004-12-01 at 13:48, sly wrote:
> thom 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