[Tfug] SuSE Overheating & Console OGG/MP3 Ripping

[Matthew Patenaude]

Adrian wrote:

>On Sunday 10 July 2005 17:32, Bill M. wrote:
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>>I've noticed some heat build up issues since the change to SuSE: tried 
>>using Grip in KDE and the rip and encode got part way through, then SuSE 
>>reported immediate shutdown because of heat. Happened two times on 
>>different days. I was at home with the swamp cooler on. I haven't 
>>checked the laptop's exhaust fans yet.
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>The Inspiron 5150 series have had a bad problem with overheating. The CPU 
>heatsink becomes easily clogged with dust/hair and then dies a horrible 
>death...
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>http://forums.us.dell.com/supportforums/board/message?board.id=insp_general&message.id=156785&query.id=285521#M156785
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>Of course... its seems all the Dells (and seemingly all other laptops) have 
>this same basic problem. I personally use i8kctl to turn on the fans and keep 
>them going. I put an "i8kfan 2 1" in my rc.init, so at bootup the fans 
>automatically turn on and keep things cool. Unfortunately, the BIOS still 
>likes to turn them back off, but a quick script watching the fan status would 
>fix that.
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>Adrain
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My laptop, a hp ze4400us has had similar problems with Linux, however, 
my latest installation (I have tried FC2, Suse 9.2, Meppis -which was 
terrible for overheating), Ubuntu, has proven to handle CPU temps well.
I am not as familiar with Debian type systems, and as it doesn't mount 
my Windows Partitions automatically like Suse, I was wondering if anyone 
could give me the instructions for mounting NTFS partitions. I know how 
to do it with FC2 and even rebuilt my kernel, but the instructions seem 
to be slightly different.
Thanks,
Matthew