[ale] laptop running very hot!

[rfaulkner at 34thprs.org (Rich Faulkner)]

I don't know about diagnostics but keep in mind that power management is
an OS thing (ospm).  I'd start by taking a look at your power management
settings and even your BIOS.  I'm running F12 and haven't issue with my 
Acer Travelmate 8200 Series.  As a matter of fact it's been running idle
on the lab bench for hours and is as you describe your Windows box.

There is a project called Open Source Hardware Monitor which may have
the ability to monitor your thermals.  I have yet to run it on *nix but
have run it on test systems running Win 7 (at work) at find is
satisfactory.  

http://openhardwaremonitor.org/
Open Source HW Monitor

Otherwise maybe you should put your HP on ice "literally!"

Cheers!   RinL




On Fri, 2011-06-24 at 15:49 -0400, Jim Philips wrote:
> I have an HP DV7 4060-us. On Windows 7, it never runs more than
> lukewarm. But on Fedora 15, running KDE, it gets blazing hot even when
> it's sitting idle. If I run top, I don't see more than 6% CPU
> consumption. On one occasion, it got so hot I started having hardware
> failures, but the damage wasn't permanent. Obviously, I'm now scared
> to leave F15 running for any length of time. Are there any diagnostics
> I can run that would tell me what's going on? 
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