Overheat warning

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I have a very serious overheating problem with my Thinkpad X201t, and I'm wondering if there's a better way of handling it in Qubes. At the moment, the computer just suddenly starts to shut down without warning. (I can reliably get the computer to overheat by converting three ebooks from epub to mobi at the same time.)

Since the system obviously knows that it's overheating, is it possible to handle this in a more polite way? It would be great if a warning would show up saying that the computer is nearing a force-shutdown, and that I should reduce whatever it is I'm doing. (In my case, converting ebooks.)

Has this been considered?

[Grzesiek Chodzicki]

run pwm config and then fancontrol in dom0

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Subject: Re: Overheat warning

Local Time: May 1, 2017 5:47 AM

UTC Time: May 1, 2017 9:47 AM

From: grzegorz....@gmail.com

To: qubes-users <qubes...@googlegroups.com>

lo...@lorentrogers.com

Are you just suggesting I re-test my fans to make sure they're working? Is Qubes supposed to be giving a warning by default? What specifically do you think I should do with pwmconfig and fancontrol?

[cooloutac]

That would be nice to have, the default temp sensor in xfce is just shows you the temp on the taskbar in green numbers. I don't think it even changes to yellow or red depending on temp like an lxde one does for me on another machine, so its pretty lame. But I just look and see if they thing goes to 50c I think something is wrong. It idles at 25c. I have a desktop pc laptops run much hotter.

If you looking for something to give a popup or play a sound I'm not sure if lm-sensors can handle that you might need some 3rd party program. But I'm always afraid to install anything to dom0.