extreme heat: toshiba satellite A205-s5859

[leviticusjonestown]

I am also having a problem with the heat with 10.04 NBR. Also a toshiba satellite; A205-s5859. Everything works out of the box except it appears the optical drive isn't reading dvds but thats not that much of a problem. The problem is the extreme heat when I boot under linux. First time I've ever tried linux and really enjoy it compared to winblows. I am completely [nOOb] unaware of how to fix this problem, perhaps a different distro? I will try the terminal commands DC suggested and report back my findings. Any help with this would be greatly appreciated.

[leviticusjonestown]

Don't know if it will help but here is what I got.

Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
aufs 1.5G 26M 1.5G 2% /
none 1.5G 308K 1.5G 1% /dev
/dev/sdb1 15G 726M 15G 5% /cdrom
/dev/loop0 660M 660M 0 100% /rofs
none 1.5G 100K 1.5G 1% /dev/shm
tmpfs 1.5G 12K 1.5G 1% /tmp
none 1.5G 88K 1.5G 1% /var/run
none 1.5G 0 1.5G 0% /var/lock
none 1.5G 0 1.5G 0% /lib/init/rw
ubuntu@ubuntu:~$
ubuntu@ubuntu:~$ lspci | grep -i vga
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation Mobile GM965/GL960 Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 0c)

[devils casper]

Are you booting up from LiveCD? Post the output of sudo fdisk -l command too.

sudo fdisk -l

* Its small L in fdisk -l.

[D-cat]

What does the tree look like under /proc/acpi/fan ?

might be able to try something to the effect of

sudo echo 1 > /proc/acpi/fan/FAN0/state

in attempt to force the fan on manually. I had to do this with my old IBM ThinkPad, it's now part of the startup script.

[leviticusjonestown]

Sorry took me so long to get back to you. Been playin around with other distros.

I'm booting from live usb.

Here are the results of that terminal command:

Disk /dev/sda: 250.1 GB, 250059350016 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 30401 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x87e90c0a

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 1 192 1536000 27 Unknown
Partition 1 does not end on cylinder boundary.
/dev/sda2 * 192 30402 242661376 7 HPFS/NTFS

Disk /dev/sdb: 16.0 GB, 16022241280 bytes
82 heads, 18 sectors/track, 21201 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 1476 * 512 = 755712 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disk identifier: 0xf5fac722

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sdb1 * 6 21202 15642688 c W95 FAT32 (LBA)

[leviticusjonestown]

What does the tree look like under /proc/acpi/fan ?

might be able to try something to the effect of

sudo echo 1 > /proc/acpi/fan/FAN0/state

in attempt to force the fan on manually. I had to do this with my old IBM ThinkPad, it's now part of the startup script.

that script doesn't work for me ;( lulz

[leviticusjonestown]

After a little poking around I see that cpu1 is at 100% while cpu2 is at 5%

That's not good

I'll stay on here as long as I can but my laptops already heating up.
Tried the bt4 distro, which is based on 8.10 and have no problems whatsoever.

really like lynx but not cooked

[Rubberman]

Well, 10.04 is fresh out of the hatchery. You may have found a bug in the OS. I would recommend that you do a search on the Ubuntu bug list for 10.04 and if you don't find any reports, then post a report yourself. Also, since you are running off of a live CD/DVD, it may not have the latest kernel fixes that are in the installed/updated version. I seem to recall some nattering on the web about a power issue related to 10.04 which may have been fixed immediately before it was released to production.

[leviticusjonestown]

Ok

I'm going to do a full install to an extra 20g hardrive I have lying around and see if that changes anything.

[Rubberman]

Also, when you finish the installation, make sure you also get the latest updates, especially for the kernel. The Ubuntu update manager will do that for you, but it takes a bit of time to detect available updates unless you do that manually. Then, you may need to alter the power profile of the system.