[GRLUG] Worried about my laptop's temperature control

[John-Thomas Richards]

On Thu, Aug 04, 2011 at 07:05:14PM -0400, Mike Williams wrote:
> 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.

This may be too obvious but have you cleaned it out with a can of
compressed gas?
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