Laptop running fan constantly on latest Breezy

[Robert Young]

type
sudo cat /proc/cpuinfo | grep MHz

or

sudo watch cat /proc/cpuinfo

does your cpu speed keep changing or are you running at top speed?


do you have the
/sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/cpufreq
directory?


On 10/6/05, Frank Merenda <fmerenda at yahoo.com> wrote:
> Jack Jackson <jackson.linux <at> gmail.com> writes:
>
> > Robert, what kind of machine, specifically, are you running?
>
> Well, I'm the one with the problem. :)
>
> I am running a Sager 5690. It's what Alienware used to sell as their laptop,
> specs here:
>
> http://www.powernotebooks.com/specs/Sager/5690specs.php
>
> I have the 3.2 P4 w/hyperthreading, and 2gb of ram. I am running the SMP kernel:
>
> [fmerenda]$ uname -a
> Linux fmerenda 2.6.12-9-686-smp #1 SMP Tue Oct 4 19:10:46 BST 2005 i686 GNU/Linux
>
> It just seems to keep running really hot for some reason. It never has before.
>
> Any help would be appreciated, thanks!
>
> -Frank
>
>
>
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