hot laptop

[Ow Mun Heng]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Michael P. Soulier [mailto:michael_soulier at mitel.com]
> Sent: Saturday, December 13, 2003 12:38 PM
> To: fedora-list at redhat.com
> Subject: Re: hot laptop
> 
> 
> On 12/12/03 Jim Cornette did say:
> 
> > cat /proc/acpi/thermal_zone/THRM/*
> > 
> > gives the below output for my machine.
> > 
> > cooling mode:            active
> > <polling disabled>
> > state:                   ok
> > temperature:             44 C
> > critical (S5):           100 C
> > passive:                 97 C: tc1=4 tc2=3 tsp=40 devices=0xcf6b6d80
> 
> My cooling mode didn't show as active, and the laptop got up 
> to 59 C and
> seems to keep rising. Is there a way to tell it to start cooling?
> 

Hmmm... On my Dell D600, This is what I get

<not supported?
<polling disabled}
state	ok
temp	43C
Critical	102C

and... My fans' _always_ on. There's nothing under /proc/acpi/fan/ also.