[GRLUG] Worried about my laptop's temperature control

[Mike Williams]

Under reasonably heavy use, my laptop's CPU temperature often approaches 
100 Celsius. This is measured by the Gnome Sensor Applet, which I'm 
pretty sure is measuring the right temperature sensors. As the machine 
starts to get warm, the fan does come on, but I'm not convinced it is 
working at anywhere near its top speed. I haven't found much for fan 
settings in the BIOS or operating system, but there has to be something. 
Where would I find it? And how hard is it to tweak the fan control 
settings so it goes to a higher speed at a lower temperature?

The system is a Toshiba Satellite A305/S6872, which is an Intel Centrino 
system with a cost-reduced Core2Duo chip in it. Operating system is 
Ubuntu 10.10.

Thanks.


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