[ltp] Temperature sensors on W500

[Karsten König]

Am Dienstag, 8. Juni 2010, 13:05:41 schrieb Yusuf Al'Derzah:
> Comparing libsensors with ibm-acpi temperatures, I think it's as follows:
> 
> temp1: core1?
> temp2: core2?
> fan1: that.
> temp1: hotest core?
> temp2: MiniPCI.
> temp3: HDD.
> temp4: GPU (discrete).
> 
> No idea about temps 9-11.  ibm-acpi has also Battery 1 and 2, but I have
> none plugged atm. ^_^
> 
> There *is* something wrong with Ubuntu and the W500's FireGL... it gets
> crazy hot while doing anything.  The heat sink on the left has got burn
> marks, so I bought a Thermaltake Massive, but even with it, I can make
> smoke signals just with playing a flash video...  Winbugs doesn't gets so
> hot, nor does the integrated GPU of course, so I've resorted to disabling
> the FireGL. Well, I guess I'm picky, the poor card is only honoring it's
> name isn't it?
> 
> I'm about to try laptop-mode-tools, see if it cools things down a little.

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 
should use fglrx just now, powermanagment support is in development for the 
xorg ati driver and corresponding kernel parts.


Regards,
Karsten