overheated laptop - solved??
Ow Mun Heng
Ow.Mun.Heng at wdc.com
Mon Dec 6 09:33:21 UTC 2004
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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> sly
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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
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