From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Drr9t-0005T9-3E for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Mon, 11 Jul 2005 05:48:49 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with SMTP id j6B5kMe5021748; Mon, 11 Jul 2005 05:46:22 GMT Received: from smtp100.mail.sc5.yahoo.com (smtp100.mail.sc5.yahoo.com [216.136.174.138]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with SMTP id j6B5eUIB000926 for ; Mon, 11 Jul 2005 05:40:30 GMT Received: (qmail 42623 invoked from network); 11 Jul 2005 05:41:06 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO ?192.168.50.105?) (richard?j?fish@212.180.33.26 with plain) by smtp100.mail.sc5.yahoo.com with SMTP; 11 Jul 2005 05:41:06 -0000 Message-ID: <42D2071C.2080404@asmallpond.org> Date: Mon, 11 Jul 2005 07:43:56 +0200 From: Richard Fish User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.2 (X11/20050623) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: My laptop is freaking me out. References: <42D070E1.3050101@yahoo.ca> <42D173CE.9070905@yahoo.ca> In-Reply-To: <42D173CE.9070905@yahoo.ca> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: e0f36d51-c69b-4775-8a65-191dec5e47de X-Archives-Hash: 253bd3532a6b0b65c463ba5952c0ca14 Ian K wrote: >Oh yes, I should also note that this seems to only happen in KDE, >not XFCE or FluxBox. I perosnally dont care for GNOME so I haven't >tried it. But I did notice that when I briefly had Ubuntu on this laptop, >I did not have these issues. Is KDE the culprit? > > Probably not KDE, but possibly X itself. Maybe it isn't the CPU, but the GPU that is overheating. The radeon driver has a "DynamicClocks" setting (man radeon). Do you have this option in your xorg.conf file? >PS>> With those temperatures, I do have all available options under >ACPI enabled, however, GKrellm2 says in the info tab that no such >sensors were found. I am also on Kernel 2.6.13-rc1-mm1. Is that >too bleeding edge? :) > > Do you have /proc/acpi/thermal_zone/THM*/temperature? If so, just do: while sleep 2 ; do clear ; cat /proc/acpi/thermal_zone/THM*/temperature; done Again, did you check /var/log/messages to see if anything interesting shows up there. If you have Machine Check Exception options in your kernel, many overheating, fan, or voltage problems should get reported there. -Richard -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list