Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 9 Aug 2006 09:39:58 +0200 | From | Pavel Machek <> | Subject | Re: swsusp and suspend2 like to overheat my laptop |
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Hi!
> > > A few months ago, I installed suspend2 on my laptop. It worked great for > > > a few days, when suddenly my laptop started to get very hot and the fan > > > costantly went off, and then I started getting these: > > > > I take it as "if I keep it for a week powered off, it will not do > > this". > > Not quite. It's more of, "if I suspend everynight instead of leaving it > running or shutting it down, it will do this" or "if I power off at night > or just leave it running, it will not do this".
Okay, can you try to leave it up for a week or two (no suspends, no poweroffs) and see what happens?
> > P4 has thermal protection, so you are actually safe. > > Yeah, but still, the keyboard gets pretty hot too, and I'm actually more > worried about damaging something that is close by than damaging the CPU > itself.
If you damage something, machine was misdesigned in the first place.
cat we get contents of /proc/acpi/thermal*/*/* ?
> $ sudo modprobe ibm_acpi > $ ls /proc/acpi/ibm/ > bay bluetooth driver led thermal > beep cmos hotkey light video > > No fan there
Does ibm/thermal work?
Seems like fan is completely controlled by hardware. What may still help: either saving or avoiding saving reserved parts of memory. But this is all magic.
How s2ram works would be useful info. Pavel -- (english) http://www.livejournal.com/~pavelmachek (cesky, pictures) http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~pavel/picture/horses/blog.html - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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