[arch-general] high CPU temperature with 2.6.32

[Sven-Hendrik Haase]

On 04.01.2010 22:07, Dimitrios Apostolou wrote:
> Hello,
>
> pacman just brought kernel 2.6.32 for my old laptop (P3 500MHz). A
> strange thing I noticed is that the fan won't go off when CPU is
> idling like it used to. Using powertop I can see more than 100K
> wakeups/s (extra_timer_interrupt is first on the list but I think it's
> irrelevant since it only shows about 100 wakeups), and the CPU is not
> going into C2 mode at all. Strangely however the cpu is 99% idle, and
> top doesn't show "system" or "user" cpu usage.
>
> Anyone else seeing such behaviour?
>
>
> Thanks in advance,
> Dimitris
>
>
Do you run acpi-cpufreq?