On Thursday 23 August 2007, pol wrote: > Sometimes my laptop overheats, because fan does not start. Restarting the > kicker by the command: > > dcop kicker kicker restart > > results in the fan starting up. > Also, sometimes fan keeps running even when the cpu is not hot at all (as > one can infer by the temperature of the air flowing out). As the kicker is > restarted as before, fan comes to rest. > > Any hints about how the two devices are related? > > Inspecting the .xsession-errors file, i have noticed a series of messages > that might be related to the above observations. Here is one of them: > > > kicker: error in > libhal_device_get_property_type:org.freedesktop.Hal.NoSuchProperty, > No property battery.charge_level.last_full on device with > id /org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/acpi_C172 You are probably running an applet which talks to HAL for powermanagement and from the behavior you experience with you fan, it seems like this applet is having a serious bug. Cheers, Kevin -- Kevin Krammer, KDE developer, xdg-utils developer KDE user support, developer mentoring
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