On Thursday 23 August 2007, Matthew Woehlke wrote: > Kevin Krammer wrote: > > 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? > > > > 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. > > You know... I think I have the same problem as pol. The only applets I > run however are the authorization indicator and klipper. (Maybe this is > a bug in older KDE 3.x? I haven't used the laptop in question in some > time, or I would be more specific which version.) Hmm. Do you also get this error about the failed libhal function call? I checked the sources for kicker itself and I couldn't find any reference to HAL API calls in there, this is why I suspected some kind of powercontrol applet, etc. to be the culprit. Which power monitoring/managment solution are you using? Cheers, Kevin -- Kevin Krammer, KDE developer, xdg-utils developer KDE user support, developer mentoring
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