[SLL] Laptop getting a bit warm

[Clifford Snow]

On Sun, 2007-07-22 at 23:25 -0500, Mike Stunes wrote:
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> I've got an Acer Travelmate 2400 series laptop, running Slack 11.0. I
> use it typically for web browsing, email and stuff, and will probably
> have a media player going in the background. Problem is, this thing is
> getting way too hot--ACPI has recently shown 70s C--as hot as 80. I
> looked into the air ports on the side and bottom--don't see any dust
> buildup, really. Is the temperature of the room an issue? The laptop
> used to run quite a bit cooler than this--typically more around 50s,
> sometimes getting up and over 60, sometimes up to mid-70s during a
> huge Gentoo compile. Any suggestions (before I melt the processor to
> the heat sink)?

I use cpuspeed to manage the cpu's running speed which keeps my dell
600m cooler.  Without it the machine was running way too hot.  I believe
not having it even caused my hard drive to fail early. I tried the
laptop cooler route, but just running this one app solved the problem.
Jesse gave some better info a while back.  You might check the
archives.  

Clifford