Is there any way to get openSUSE 11.2 to automatically shutdown or hiberate when the laptop is overheating? I often cannot tell when my computer is overheating as it sits on a table. When it over heats, the kernel panics and I have to hold the power button to force my computer to shut off.
Hi,
Lin-unix <Lin-unix@no-mx.forums.opensuse.org> writes:
> Is there any way to get openSUSE 11.2 to automatically shutdown or
> hiberate when the laptop is overheating? I often cannot tell when my
> computer is overheating as it sits on a table. When it over heats, the
> kernel panics and I have to hold the power button to force my computer
> to shut off.
Just a thought, but how about stopping it from overheating in the first
place?
Is the fan blocked/not working?
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Regards,
Barry Nichols
I know not to overheat my system. That’s not the problem. It just seems linux OS’s seem poorly prepared for overheating scenarios. Is there any reason why there is nothing set up to handle this situation?
Hi
Have you turned off acpi or something to boot the system? What is your
hardware and boot options on the grub menu?
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Cheers Malcolm °¿° (Linux Counter #276890)
openSUSE 11.3 Milestone 3 (i586) Kernel 2.6.33-5-desktop
up 0:21, 2 users, load average: 0.13, 0.12, 0.17
ASUS eeePC 1000HE ATOM N280 1.66GHz | GPU Mobile 945GM/GMS/GME
Lin-unix wrote:
> I know not to overheat my system. That’s not the problem. It just seems
> linux OS’s seem poorly prepared for overheating scenarios. Is there any
> reason why there is nothing set up to handle this situation?
yes, the reason is: why is the system overheating? find that and fix
that…imo the operating system should not be involved in watching for
and saving hardware from too much cat hair in the cooling pathways…
you might try to find out why the BIOS and/or in-CPU sensing is not
shutting down the system LONG before the kernel could even learn of
the problem…which is what happens here, on my five year old
AMD–when the chip starts getting close to too hot, it quits…
BANG, power off…no talking to the OS saying: Please do a normal
shutdown now because i’m gonna be so hot in one minute that you are
gonna go into a panic!
check the laptop makers web site for their heat management suggestions
and see if they recommend routine maintenance, cleanings and factory
set clock/voltage setting instead of relegating hardware protection to
whatever OS you wanna load…
another reason: openSUSE is made for the ‘average’ user…and i dare
say the average user doesn’t need openSUSE to monitor system heat
because the average user’s hardware purrs in normal operating limits…
your machine, your pocketbook, your decision…
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palladium