[GRLUG] temperature problems

[Mike Williams]

My trusty Toshiba laptop runs awfully hot based on the gnome sensors 
applet. If it's not reading true, it's at least showing something 
related to temperature as the reading goes up under load and down at 
other times. As I start writing this, it had just hit 98C and produced a 
"Core temperature above threshold, cpu clock throttled" message. What 
worries me is that while the fan is blowing, it's doing so at far below 
its fastest speed. I don't think the fan is just clogged or anything 
because in Windows it will go much faster. It seems like the equation 
for when the fan goes to what speed needs adjusting, but I don't know 
where that is.

Any ideas how to fix this? OS is Ubuntu 10.10. The hardware is a Toshiba 
a305-s6872, which is a core2duo centrino running an Intel GM45 chipset.

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