Laptop CPU Temp increase when idle - FC5

[Clifford Snow]

On Sun, 2006-04-02 at 20:25 +0100, Chris Jones wrote:
> > Has anyone experience similar problems or have suggestions to control
> > temps?
> 
> I've been running FC on a Dell 8600 (since FC1) and have always used gkrellm 
> with the  dell i8k plugin to control the cpu fans. basically this uses the 
> i8k fan utilities to turn the fans on/off at thresholds you can set. I have 
> found this very reliable.
I ran gkrellm under FC4 with no problem, but since I switched to FC5,
the fan controls only work when the system is not idle.  Are you running
FC4 or 5?

Clifford