overheated laptop - solved??

[sly]

Ow Mun Heng wrote:
> On Mon, 2004-12-06 at 11:34, sly wrote:
> 
>>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!
> 
> 
> I'm not sure if its compiled by the Fedora kenrel. I usually roll my own
> kernel, and there's the i8k option.
> CONFIG_I8K=m

that's what i don't know how to do! i did it once and i crashed the 
entire system.

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> 
> 
>>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!
>>
>>--
>>sly
>>(561)601-4303
>>dsyc at go.ro
>>73 6c 79
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