Hello guys! I’ve always wanted to try OpenSuse on my pc and stuck with it, but this 11.x version is driving me crazy: i like it, i want it, but the cpu is constantly at a minumun of 77°c and NEVER gets lower, so my system is quite unmanageable (besides, it’s NOT a likely temperature for a pc to reach in a normal situation; even now, i’m just writing here ad it’s all so hot!) and i have to give up and install some other distro. I googled a lot looking for a solution, but everyone i found isn’t regarding the os version i have (11.1, but 11.0 too had this problem) nor my kind of pc (mostly, they are for eeepc). Can anyone please help me? I know it’s a known bug, but how could it be there’s not yet a solution?? Any advice? Thank you all 
Hate to state the obvious but could it be correct?
Have you tried running a live cd of a different distro and seeing if the temperature is any lower in it? Do you have windows XP on it? You can check the temp in xp with a utility called coretemp.
CPU’s in laptops can get pretty hot. Even with normal work just because the ventilation is crap. My acer netbook with a Intel Atom CPU runs at 65°C regularly and it’s supposed to be one of the coolest around.
Yes, i usually use windows only for videogames. Mandriva, Ubuntu, Pardus, Linux Mint and all the others (Windows included) keep the temperature at 40° (on Windows it’s high because i play videogames, of course).
One correction: i checked again the cpu temperature under windows (vista) and it’s about 45/50° (infact, the fans are silent). When i use OpenSuse, temperature is way too hot and fans are always on.
Pepello adjusted his/her AFB on Friday 08 May 2009 12:46 to write:
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> One correction: i checked again the cpu temperature under windows
> (vista) and it’s about 45/50° (infact, the fans are silent). When i use
> OpenSuse, temperature is way too hot and fans are always on.
>
>
Have you checked that nothing is taking all the CPU and causing the fan to
stay on?
Use top to see what is running.
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Have you loaded the acpi module for your laptop? Also, do the fans come on when you startup or only when the temperature gets above some number?
Most motherboards will automatically start fans when the temperature reaches a certain point with no control by the operating system, then automatically shutdown above a certain temperature.
Thermal control is quite poor on OpenSuse. I have a thinkpad laptop for which I needed to create a script in order to start the fans. Before that the temperature would regularly go above 70C, now rarely above 50C.
Hi guys, thanks for the help!
@baskitcaise: I used top, it seems to me nothing’s wrong. Should i report the output? I have nepomuk and strigi activated (nepomuk literally EATS from 88% to 95% of processor usage O_o): could it be their fault?
@ davidgurvich: i have acpi installed and it’s running. The fans start working as soon as i enter: i noticed that if windows keeps temperature at 45°, as i run opensuse, it automatically raises to 60/65 in normal conditions (i mean: having just firefox opened), even if i have powersave profile active (with dynamic conservative cpu policy), thus having the cpu running at only 800mhz. The temperature (60/65°) remains stable as long as i use opensuse O_o
Of course: temperature sticks at 60/65 if i only use one or two programms. As soon as i listen to music, surf the web and use emesene or something else, there it is: fans stun me and cpu becomes hot (OT: how can i edit my post? :p)
Pepello adjusted his/her AFB on Friday 08 May 2009 15:56 to write:
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> Hi guys, thanks for the help!
> @baskitcaise: I used top, it seems to me nothing’s wrong. Should i
> report the output? I have nepomuk and strigi activated (nepomuk
> literally EATS from 88% to 95% of processor usage O_o): could it be
> their fault?
The first thing I do on any install is disable and un-install any search
cruft like strigi. beagle et al, and when I get round to it I will find a
way of disabling that nepomuck as well 
whilst I am sure people will praise the uses of such I find them a waste of
CPU cycles.
my suggestion would be to disable as much as you can and see if it makes any
difference, if not than look for other stuff but I am willing to place a 5p
wager your symptoms might get better after you do.
HTH
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Mark
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My guess is that you are using KDE4. If your cpu is getting to hot sometimes it’s enough to change only your dekstop-environment, not the full distribution. 
Good luck.
Hi ram88 Yes, i’m using KDE 4; infact, it’s the reason why i want to use OpenSuse: I think it’s the only distribution that provides a decent KDE 4 experience (IMHO). I also tried it on Mandriva 2009.1 and it was good, no warm temperature issue, just system instability (Mandriva’s fault, not KDE’s). I know i can use gnome (which i’m very comfortable with), but i want to use KDE 4, i had it running well on my machine, so i can’t see why it can’t with OpenSuse too.
And i stopped the strigi thing, but experienced no changes 
Oh,ok: some news I tried for some hours OpenSuse with no Strigi and Nepomuk and the problem’s solved! My cpu now runs at circa 60° (but goes even down to 50° :O), which is a far more acceptable temperature and tends not to go higher: Good! Thank you all!
Pepello adjusted his/her AFB on Friday 08 May 2009 20:16 to write:
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> Oh,ok: some news I tried for some hours OpenSuse with no Strigi and
> Nepomuk and the problem’s solved! My cpu now runs at circa 60° (but goes
> even down to 50° :O), which is a far more acceptable temperature and
> tends not to go higher: Good! Thank you all!
>
>
Great news.
If you look at the processes running ( Ctrl+Esc ) you will notice that the
nepomukserver still runs take no notice at that one as far as I can tell
there is no way to stop it ( unless anyone knows different ) it is linked
to numerous apps such as kmail, knode et al and cannot be removed from the
system without more or less removing all things KDE.
You can kill it but it will restart however it does not chew the CPU like
strigi, beagle, nepomuk does.
Glad to have helped.
Enjoy.
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Yep, i noticed it, this nepomukserver. Unless it doesn’t comsume my cpu cycles, i don’t mind 
But i’d love to know what nepomuk’s supposed to do at its present level of developement in developers’ mind (sorry for the repetition): it’s resource hungry, makes the system unstable and adds no tangible improvement (repetita juvant: at the present stage of developement). Bah. Bye!
Pepello adjusted his/her AFB on Saturday 09 May 2009 09:56 to write:
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> Yep, i noticed it, this nepomukserver. Unless it doesn’t comsume my cpu
> cycles, i don’t mind But i’d love to know what nepomuk’s supposed to
> do at its present level of developement in developers’ mind (sorry for
> the repetition): it’s resource hungry, makes the system unstable and
> adds no tangible improvement (repetita juvant: at the present stage of
> developement). Bah. Bye!
>
>
Well as far as I can gather it is supposed to trawl through all your files
and compile a db of notable tags so that you can search using different
parameters.
So if you want to search for an e-mail with your pr0n account no. in you can
just enter something like:
pr0n account number
and voila it auto-magically appears and away ya go for hours of endless fun
and frolics.
The nepomuk is a part of KDE and is also used in things like Knode et al for
searching posts and mails for different keywords so it cannot be removed
only stopped as it is heavily intergrated.
Obviously it is a bit more complicated than that but I still do not need it
on my comps, being a billy no mates means I do not get that many mails and
by the time they have got through my spam filters there is not enough to
search through
If I need to find the location of a file a simple console and locate does
me.
HTH
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Of course, i know it’s an indexer, but at the moment it’s quite useless for its bad impact on system performances. It will probably be a great tecnology when it will come to its fully implementation, but as it is, it’s just nonessential (let me state: in my opinion, ok? ). I know, it should do many interesting things and is trying to expand the concept of indexing files and whatsoever (and maybe he who has it working right on his machine, is already taking benefit from this tecnology); and i red many people complaining about its implementation (many had my same issue): thus, my question is: is it ready for wide adoption? I don’t think so. Nepomuk developers, forgive me for not using it
Nobody using it. It’s like beagle. Many people requested to remove it from the base installation, because if you have any problem the first suggestion is to remove the indexer - completely.