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• Richard Philip Henry John Benson

  

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  February 8, 2012 2:03:33 PM PST

  Hi I've installed the lastest wattOS version. I really like it, especially the wallpaper :D

  But with this I have some overheating problems. In fact, the temp. of my CPU (AMD Athlon 64 X2) are about 88°C O.O

  In the LXDE panel I can't find the cpu scaling app. Where can I?

  Or what should I do?

   

  Thanks

• Richard Philip Henry John Benson

  

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  February 9, 2012 11:38:50 AM PST

  I almost resolved the problem after installing Jupiter, for the CPU scaling, and activating the drivers ATI non-opensource. But now I've 70° in idle! How can i put down the temperatures again? Sorry for my english, I'm from Italy :S
• Leenie Gilmore

  

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  February 10, 2012 9:06:39 AM PST

  Maybe a hardware problem?
• Richard Philip Henry John Benson

  

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  February 10, 2012 9:33:28 AM PST

  With Ubuntu 10.04 LTS I have only 60°, it shouldn't be an hardware problem! It can be the kernel! Which kernel is installed in the latest wattOS? Thanks.
• biff baxter

  

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  February 10, 2012 9:55:46 AM PST

  My experience with this is usually around the proprietary drivers. Making sure they are in use (ati fglrx) and I used cpufrequtils. Also ACPI. the current Kernel for R4 should be 2.6.38-10 . After install, I would make sure you go to synaptic and do a full system update.
  
  Lastly, R5 (the next version) will be out very soon (news, screenshots on that this weekend) and will have a much more in the way of settings that are implemented that should help. It will be running 3.x Kernel, and my system right now is a corei7 running at 51 degrees

  Oh yes...and Jupiter is included in R5 

  
  tks....biff

  
  This post was edited by biff baxter at February 10, 2012 10:02:54 AM PST
• Richard Philip Henry John Benson

  

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  February 12, 2012 5:50:20 AM PST

  Thank you very much :)
• Randy Anderson

  

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  February 27, 2012 10:24:39 PM PST

  Reseat the heatsink and try again. It's probably not the OS.

   

  Also, don't forget to clean the heatsink and put new thermal paste on.

  
  This post was edited by Randy Anderson at February 27, 2012 10:25:41 PM PST
• Prague, Oh Prague

  

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  April 8, 2012 6:46:42 AM PDT

  Bumping this thread as I have the same problem with overheating.
  
  Being completely new to Linux I recently installed Watt OS R5 and I really like it.
  The big hurdle now is to overcome the overheating problem. (Or the fan problem) I have noticed that the fan speed is completely static when I use Watt OS. If I boot up the computer when cool then it will use a minimal speed which will not do once I watch a video on YouTube. At other times when I boot up the fan speed stays too high.
  
  Before posting here I did try the advise in the link below.
  
  http://www.webupd8.org/2011/06/linux-kernel-power-issue-fix.html
  
  Unfortunately nothing happens when I enter gksu gedit /etc/default/grub
  
  As both Jupiter and psensor is installed I think these should somehow enable automation of fan speed too. But I don’t know how. If anyone can point me to a solution please let me know.

  
  This post was edited by Prague, Oh Prague at April 8, 2012 6:55:50 AM PDT
• biff baxter

  

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  April 8, 2012 2:26:31 PM PDT

  Can you post a little more info about your hardware? Is it a desktop or laptop, and the results of lspci (just enter it in a terminal and paste the output.)
  
  Most heating issues/fast fans, etc. In the last 2-3 years have been around proprietary video drivers. I run a corei7 laptop with a high end radeon video card. The fans run wide open and it runs hot until I install the vendor video drivers.
  
  To see if yours has any available, go the the menu and go to preferences - addtional drivers, and let it check your system.
  
  biff
• Prague, Oh Prague

  

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  April 10, 2012 2:06:10 PM PDT

  Hello Biff and thank you very much for replying. 

  
  

  I use a rather old HP laptop. Mobile AMD Sepron processor 3500+, 1,58 GHZ, 896 MB Ram. I have searched fo additional drivers but all that was retreived is a driver for my wireless card.

  
  

  Please see the lscpi below.

  
  

  00:00.0 Host bridge: ATI Technologies Inc RS480 Host Bridge (rev 10) 

  
  

  00:01.0 PCI bridge: ATI Technologies Inc RS480 PCI Bridge

  
  

  00:04.0 PCI bridge: ATI Technologies Inc RS480 PCI Bridge

  
  

  00:05.0 PCI bridge: ATI Technologies Inc RS480 PCI Bridge

  
  

  00:06.0 PCI bridge: ATI Technologies Inc RS480 PCI Bridge

  
  

  00:12.0 IDE interface: ATI Technologies Inc IXP SB400 Serial ATA Controller (rev 80)

  
  

  00:13.0 USB Controller: ATI Technologies Inc IXP SB400 USB Host Controller (rev 80)

  
  

  00:13.1 USB Controller: ATI Technologies Inc IXP SB400 USB Host Controller (rev 80)

  
  

  00:13.2 USB Controller: ATI Technologies Inc IXP SB400 USB2 Host Controller (rev 80)00:14.0 SMBus: ATI Technologies Inc IXP SB400 SMBus Controller (rev 82)

  
  

  00:14.1 IDE interface: ATI Technologies Inc IXP SB400 IDE Controller (rev 80)

  
  

  00:14.2 Audio device: ATI Technologies Inc IXP SB4x0 High Definition Audio Controller (rev 01)

  
  

  00:14.3 ISA bridge: ATI Technologies Inc IXP SB400 PCI-ISA Bridge (rev 80)

  
  

  00:14.4 PCI bridge: ATI Technologies Inc IXP SB400 PCI-PCI Bridge (rev 80)

  
  

  00:18.0 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] HyperTransport Technology Configuration

  
  

  00:18.1 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] Address Map

  
  

  00:18.2 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] DRAM Controller

  
  

  00:18.3 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] Miscellaneous Control

  
  

  01:05.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc RS482 [Radeon Xpress 200M]

  
  

  02:01.0 Ethernet controller: Broadcom Corporation NetXtreme BCM5788 Gigabit Ethernet (rev 03)02:04.0 CardBus bridge: Texas Instruments PCIxx12 Cardbus Controller

  
  

  02:04.1 FireWire (IEEE 1394): Texas Instruments PCIxx12 OHCI Compliant IEEE 1394 Host Controller

  
  

  02:04.2 Mass storage controller: Texas Instruments 5-in-1 Multimedia Card Reader (SD/MMC/MS/MS PRO/xD)

  
  

  02:04.3 SD Host controller: Texas Instruments PCIxx12 SDA Standard Compliant SD Host Controller

  
  

  30:00.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM4311 802.11a/b/g (rev 01)

  
  

   

  
  

  Regards

  
  

  Magnus