Re: Dell Inspiron N5010 laptop overheating on Debian 6.0.1, Linux 3.2.3, low CPU usage, radeon GPU driver
Good time of the day, Stefan.
You worte:
>and I have all the kernel modules that should be needed for the
>fans to work properly:
>-> acpi-cpufreq (ondemand), which claims that most of the time
>my CPU runs at low frequency:
> cpufreq stats: 2.40 GHz:4.11%, 2.39 GHz:0.02%, 2.26 GHz:0.08%,
> 2.13 GHz:0.05%, 2.00 GHz:0.08%, 1.86 GHz:0.05%, 1.73 GHz:0.05%,
>1.60 GHz:0.13%, 1.46 GHz:0.42%, 1.20 GHz:95.01% (5730)
>-> i8k (I've installed i8kutils, a tool for Dell Inspiron which allows
>me to
>manually configure the fans)
>-> thermal, dell_laptop
>-> intel_ips (apparently needed by my laptop's "5 Series/3400 Series
>Chipset Thermal Subsystem")
>-> radeon (the free GPU driver; my video card is a HD 5470)
I did not understand exactly for the things You are fighting w/ but if
You are concerned on CPU too hot - I suggest to check if the modules
are loaded (not only installed on Your system) - so it was w/ mine
inspiron until I set it manually to be loaded.
Sthu.
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