iBook getting hot

Michael Hauck mailings at mystuff.ch
Fri Oct 1 11:28:25 UTC 2004


Much better now, thanks! :)

mike

Martin Pitt wrote:

>Hi Michael!
>
>On 2004-10-01 10:02 +0200, Michael Hauck wrote:
>  
>
>>Hi everyone!
>>
>>I have installed Ubuntu Linux on an iBook G4 933. The installation went 
>>fine and most of my hardware including sound and network was detected. 
>>However, there is one slight problem. My ibook get's very hot after 
>>running for half an hour. This doesn't happen when running OSX. Feels 
>>like it's going to melt. ;)
>>    
>>
>
>This is bug https://bugzilla.ubuntulinux.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1606
>
>The module therm_adt746x was not loaded automatically until now. So
>the fan was never enabled and thus the iBook got very hot.
>
>Today's daily built CD images should fix that. If you do not want to
>install again, then please do 'sudo modprobe therm_adt746x' to fix it
>immediately and append the module name to /etc/modules to have it
>loaded at every system boot.
>
>Martin
>
>  
>





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