overheated laptop

[sly]

ok! cpu freq varies upon usage, whitch is fine. but the temp will not 
drop below 70C. once it reaches 58C the fan kicks in at medium speed and 
  stays like that. i'm trying to find a way to make run at a higher 
speed till it cools off.


sly
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Satish Balay wrote:
> On Sun, 28 Nov 2004, sly wrote:
> 
> 
>>>can you do 'cat
>>>/sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/cpufreq/scaling_available_frequencies'
>>
>># cat /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/cpufreq/scaling_available_frequencies
>>349991 699982 1049973 1399965 1749956 2099947 2449938 2799930
>>
>>should i erase the fist entry?
> 
> 
> I don't know how this can be done - you can give it a try :)
> 
> 
>>what is this? i had "-i 2" and changed to "1"
> 
> 
> /usr/sbin/cpuspeed --help
> 
> Ideally I'd like an option for cpuspeed to ingonre certain frequencies (esp
> all the intermediate ones). I'd rather it just jumps between the
> lowest (save power) & highest (max-performance)
> 
> Satish
>