<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 10/16/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Darren Mansell</b> <<a href="mailto:darren@vcoc.co.uk">darren@vcoc.co.uk</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Paul S wrote:<br>> NoOp said the following on 10/16/2007 01:19 PM:<br>><br>>> On 10/15/2007 04:10 AM, Tim M wrote:<br>>><br>>><br>>>> P.S. Under 7.04 I was finally able to get a little program to get the fan
<br>>>> working but set on automatic it ran all the time flat out. When I have the<br>>>> hard drive with XP installed in the laptop the fan is seldom on. Of course<br>>>> with XP I have no idea what the cpu temperature is.
<br>>>><br>><br>> My laptop also got real hot after I installed gutsy. I couldn't figure<br>> out why, but finally got gkrellm running and noticed the cpu running<br>> near 100% all the time. Turns out the new desktop search feature
<br>> "tracker" was the culprit. Once I turned it off by menu System ><br>> Preferences > Indexing Preferences, my cpu dropped to low and the<br>> temperature came back to normal. So, maybe you should check this if
<br>> you're afraid to run gutsy to troubleshoot the problem.<br>><br>> HTH<br>><br>><br>I have to add p4_clockmod to my /etc/modules to get my Celeron to speedstep.<br><br></blockquote></div>GOT IT! Thanks guys. I had install gkrellm BUT needed to tweak the configuration file. All it took was adding a line . . .
<a href="http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=433671">http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=433671</a><br>Anyway, it is working well.<br><br>Tim<br><br><br>