Re: F17 - problem with overheating

2012-12-27 Thread Tim
Allegedly, on or about 27 December 2012, Paolo De Michele sent: > The air coming out is hot. In that case, I'd leave the "top" command running in a console, and see what's reported as using a lot of CPU. My system usually uses very little of the CPU, but I'll often find that Firefox suddenly pegs

Re: F17 - problem with overheating

2012-12-27 Thread Paolo De Michele
On 12/27/2012 03:56 PM, Paolo De Michele wrote: > > On 12/27/2012 03:49 PM, Ranjan Maitra wrote: >> On Thu, 27 Dec 2012 15:36:11 +0100 Paolo De Michele >> wrote: >> >>> Hi Jim, Ranjan >>> Also, have you tried it with other Fedora and non-Fedora distributions/OS/releases? I would first

Re: F17 - problem with overheating

2012-12-27 Thread Paolo De Michele
On 12/27/2012 03:49 PM, Ranjan Maitra wrote: > On Thu, 27 Dec 2012 15:36:11 +0100 Paolo De Michele > wrote: > >> Hi Jim, Ranjan >> >>> Also, have you tried it with other Fedora and non-Fedora >>> distributions/OS/releases? I would first make sure that the problem is >>> isolated to Fedora 17 an

Re: F17 - problem with overheating

2012-12-27 Thread Ranjan Maitra
On Thu, 27 Dec 2012 15:36:11 +0100 Paolo De Michele wrote: > Hi Jim, Ranjan > > > Also, have you tried it with other Fedora and non-Fedora > > distributions/OS/releases? I would first make sure that the problem is > > isolated to Fedora 17 and not the hardware, kernel, etc. > > Honestly I nev

Re: F17 - problem with overheating

2012-12-27 Thread Paolo De Michele
On 12/27/2012 06:22 AM, Tim wrote: > Allegedly, on or about 27 December 2012, Paolo De Michele sent: >> I noticed that very hot without doing anything complex; the fan runs >> like crazy - > Is it actually blowing hot air, or the fans are running hard and blowing > cool air, and something else *sa

Re: F17 - problem with overheating

2012-12-27 Thread Paolo De Michele
Hi Jim, Ranjan On 12/27/2012 02:48 AM, Ranjan Maitra wrote: > On Wed, 26 Dec 2012 20:29:43 -0500 Jim wrote: > >> On 12/26/2012 06:11 PM, Paolo De Michele wrote: >>> hi all, >>> >>> I've installed F17 on my laptop Sony VPCEB4C4E 32bit (KDE) >>> I noticed that very hot without doing anything compl

Re: F17 - problem with overheating

2012-12-26 Thread Tim
Allegedly, on or about 27 December 2012, Paolo De Michele sent: > I noticed that very hot without doing anything complex; the fan runs > like crazy - Is it actually blowing hot air, or the fans are running hard and blowing cool air, and something else *says* that it's hot? > I opened the laptop t

Re: F17 - problem with overheating

2012-12-26 Thread Ranjan Maitra
On Wed, 26 Dec 2012 20:29:43 -0500 Jim wrote: > On 12/26/2012 06:11 PM, Paolo De Michele wrote: > > hi all, > > > > I've installed F17 on my laptop Sony VPCEB4C4E 32bit (KDE) > > I noticed that very hot without doing anything complex; the fan runs like > > crazy - > > > > I opened the laptop to s

Re: F17 - problem with overheating

2012-12-26 Thread Jim
On 12/26/2012 06:11 PM, Paolo De Michele wrote: hi all, I've installed F17 on my laptop Sony VPCEB4C4E 32bit (KDE) I noticed that very hot without doing anything complex; the fan runs like crazy - I opened the laptop to see if there was dust on the cpu fan but it is clean I noticed that maybe w

F17 - problem with overheating

2012-12-26 Thread Paolo De Michele
hi all, I've installed F17 on my laptop Sony VPCEB4C4E 32bit (KDE) I noticed that very hot without doing anything complex; the fan runs like crazy - I opened the laptop to see if there was dust on the cpu fan but it is clean I noticed that maybe when I watch a video, I look at the mail (thunderb