[ltp] Temperature sensors on W500

[Yusuf Al'Derzah]

Karsten K=C3=B6nig wrote:
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> Are you using any open source driver? Ubuntu is still shipping with non-
> working ati powermanagment (as are most  up to date distributions) so you=
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> should use fglrx just now, powermanagment support is in development for
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> xorg ati driver and corresponding kernel parts.
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That did the trick, thanks a bunch. I was using xorg's radeon driver indeed=
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CPU & GPU now down to ~45=C2=BA from 60-70=C2=BA.  Wonder how come no one h=
ad
mentioned that in all the fired up W500 threads I went through.

Sadly, I still can't resume from hibernation... I thought it had stopped
working because I switched to the Intel card, but it still doesn't, with
either radeon or fglrx...  Perhaps a kernel upgrade; or BIOS black magic; o=
r
the driver madness.  Oh well, first time I've to reinstall Linux faster tha=
n
Winbugs... but for the mean time, I'm no longer tempted to fry eggs on my
keyboard. ;)

Cheers.


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