Richard Fish wrote:

>Ian K wrote:
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>>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?
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>Probably not KDE, but possibly X itself.  Maybe it isn't the CPU, but
>the GPU that is overheating.
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>The radeon driver has a "DynamicClocks" setting (man radeon).  Do you
>have this option in your xorg.conf file? 
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Nope, but after setting it to 'true' (and restarting my computer)
I notice that my laptop cooling fans are on (probably about mid-speed)
*constantly*. I'm looking over, and seeing my computer idling at
0% CPU usage. Its fans are blasting cool air through it, and its running
a lot less hot. Looks like you solved the problem. Heck, it doesn't matter
if its the CPU or GPU warming up too much, the whole system is on
at full blast after KDE is started. Its AWESOME! :)

I will let you know if I have further problems.

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>>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? :)
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>Do you have /proc/acpi/thermal_zone/THM*/temperature?  If so, just do:
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I do, but the directory "structure(?)" ends at thermal_zone. There
is nothing in it.

>while sleep 2 ; do clear ; cat /proc/acpi/thermal_zone/THM*/temperature;
>done
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>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.
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>-Richard
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Thank you so much!!!!!
All the best,
Ian