overheated laptop - solved??

[sly]

Ow Mun Heng wrote:
> On Wed, 2004-12-01 at 13:48, sly wrote:
> 
>>thom at customnetworks.ca wrote:
>>
>>>I couldn't find the thread start for this as I'm not at the office, but I
> 
> 
>>ok! i installed gkrellm but it does not have any options for fans. so i 
>>got i8krellm but can't install it cuz i need i8kutils. so i got this one 
>>too. only that this is over my knowledge. i did make - ok; i did make 
>>install - ok. but it's not ok because i can't find i8k.o. i read i had 
> 
> 
> 
> YOu need to load the i8k module.
> 
> you can try on a command line : (as root)
> $ modprobe i8k

  did it! No such device!

but! what's interesting is that now it works fine. stays at 55C. as far 
as i know, i didn't do anything. for some reason it is good!
thanx for the help!

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