Laptop CPU Temp increase when idle - FC5

[alan]

On Sun, 2 Apr 2006, Clifford Snow wrote:

> I have a dell 600m inspiron laptop that I recently upgraded to FC5. This
> was a complete reinstall.  When the laptop is idle, the CPU temp, as
> reported by i8kctl increase. If it sits idle for 30 minutes the CPU temp
> can reach up to 60C. At that temp, I start seeing problems.  With any
> keyboard activity the fan speed picks up dropping the temp back to
> 39-40C.
>
> I've disabled the screen saver and changed power management setting with
> no change.
>
> I've added /usr/bin/i8kfan -d to my startup programs thinking that it
> would keep running even if the system is idle.
>
> Has anyone experience similar problems or have suggestions to control
> temps?

Are you sure there is nothing running?  Run "top" and see if anything 
shows up.  It is probably the Beagle indexer.

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