[ale] laptop running very hot!

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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?
> 

lm_sensors?  i believe that is what it is in an rpm system (debian it is 
lm-sensors if memory serves)

possibly "yum install lm_sensors" followed by running "sensors-detect" 
as root.

to have sensors read in Fahrenheit would be "sensors -f"

now i have to go wash my hands... ugh, red hat commands...