[ltp] X61s idle temperature/palm rest: partial solution

Ashok Leyland linux-thinkpad@linux-thinkpad.org
Tue, 22 Jul 2008 19:42:59 +0100


On Tue, Jul 22, 2008 at 07:00:18PM +0200, Damien Challet wrote:
> Dear All,
> 
> I have been struggling to keep down the cpu and palmrest temperatures of this nasty little beast. Sadly, with Vista, the temperature of the palm rest is 
> really acceptable.

[snip]

I find reducing the txpower of the wifi (iwl4965 here) with iwconfig
greatly reduces the temperature of the right palmrest.