overheated laptop - solved??

Peter Arremann loony at loonybin.org
Mon Dec 6 12:46:06 UTC 2004


The FC3 kernel contains i8k as a module... but you might have to append a 
force=1 to the modprobe line because not all laptops that support i8k are 
known to the driver (example, my inspiration 8500).

Peter.

On Monday 06 December 2004 07:40, sly wrote:
> Ow Mun Heng wrote:
> > 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
>
> that's what i don't know how to do! i did it once and i crashed the
> entire system.
>
> >>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!
> >>
> >>--
> >>sly
> >>(561)601-4303
> >>dsyc at go.ro
> >>73 6c 79
> >
> > --
> > 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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