I have the same problem. with my Vaio SA25. $ sensors acpitz-virtual-0 Adapter: Virtual device temp1: +74.0°C (crit = +97.0°C)
coretemp-isa-0000 Adapter: ISA adapter Physical id 0: +74.0°C (high = +86.0°C, crit = +100.0°C) Core 0: +72.0°C (high = +86.0°C, crit = +100.0°C) Core 1: +68.0°C (high = +86.0°C, crit = +100.0°C) radeon-pci-0100 Adapter: PCI adapter temp1: -128.0°C while it is basically not in very busy state $ top top - 11:50:40 up 1:33, 2 users, load average: 0.04, 0.31, 0.27 Tasks: 180 total, 2 running, 177 sleeping, 0 stopped, 1 zombie Cpu(s): 0.9%us, 0.4%sy, 0.0%ni, 97.9%id, 0.7%wa, 0.1%hi, 0.1%si, 0.0%st Mem: 6102680k total, 2505660k used, 3597020k free, 408332k buffers Swap: 12287996k total, 0k used, 12287996k free, 1389544k cached my resolution is 1600x900, and currently I am only open chrome, evince, nautilus, and gedit. any suggestion will be appreciated. regards, -andria On Tue, Dec 13, 2011 at 10:41 PM, Christopher Svanefalk < christopher.svanef...@gmail.com> wrote: > UPDATE: > > I changed my web browser away from Epiphany, and this had a radical impact > - system runs much cooler. > > Also, try hdparm -B 1 /dev/sd* (or be specific which discs you want to > power down). > > Using powertop could also help. > > On Mon, Dec 12, 2011 at 6:10 PM, g <gel...@bellsouth.net> wrote: > >> On 12/12/2011 01:59 PM, Patrick Lists wrote: >> > On 12-12-11 06:18, g wrote: >> >> if you had done such while still using the radeon driver, it would have >> >> been interesting to know before and after. plus, knowing temp between >> >> recent and last time of cleaning could give you an idea of how often >> you >> >> need to do such. >> > >> > Did that. No change between before and after. The temperature still was >> > high. Admittedly the fans etc were quite clean. >> -=- >> >> ok. >> >> >> >> as above, if catalyst drivers do not let you monitor, how do you know >> >> it is better? :-) >> > >> > No more lockups and the fans hardly run. With radeon I had lockups and >> > the fans would run fast. >> -=- >> >> ok. all interesting information. >> >> i am considering getting a laptop for my next system and such problems >> are among my concern. >> >> i have not decided which make/model, but any and all potential problems >> i can solve or find solutions for now will help to enjoy life more. ;) >> >> >> thank you. >> >> -- >> >> peace out. >> >> tc.hago, >> >> g >> . >> >> *please reply "plain text" only. "html text" are deleted* >> >> **** >> in a free world without fences, who needs gates. >> ** >> help microsoft stamp out piracy - give linux to a friend today. >> ** >> to mess up a linux box, you need to work at it. >> to mess up an ms windows box, you just need to *look* at it. >> ** >> The installation instructions stated to install Windows 2000 or better. >> So I installed Linux. >> ** >> learn linux: >> 'Rute User's Tutorial and Exposition' http://rute.2038bug.com/index.html >> 'The Linux Documentation Project' http://www.tldp.org/ >> 'LDP HOWTO-index' http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/HOWTO-INDEX/index.html >> 'HowtoForge' http://howtoforge.com/ >> **** >> >> >> -- >> users mailing list >> users@lists.fedoraproject.org >> To unsubscribe or change subscription options: >> https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users >> Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines >> Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org >> >> > > -- > users mailing list > users@lists.fedoraproject.org > To unsubscribe or change subscription options: > https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users > Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines > Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org > >
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