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Vapourstreak

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Registered: 2011-02-04

Posts: 37

Disable Auto-shutdown

I just installed Arch on my laptop, and it keeps shutting down for some reason.  I think it's cause of the temperature, but I've never had this problem with Windows or Ubuntu, so does Arch have a lower max temperature point, or what?  It's really annoying, is there a way to disable it or set it to a higher temperature?

Thanks,
Vapour.

dobedo

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From: Belgium

Registered: 2008-10-04

Posts: 113

Re: Disable Auto-shutdown

As far as I know the max temperature is not distro based.
What you can try is to install the lm-sensors to see if the temp is high: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Lm_sensors
Do you see any process using lot of cpu in top/htop and powertop (if your laptop is intel based).

Vapourstreak

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Registered: 2011-02-04

Posts: 37

Re: Disable Auto-shutdown

I'm using AMD, but xsensors says that I'm running ~90C, which seems super high, actually.  Why doesn't Windows or Ubuntu make me shut down?  Is it just that Arch makes my system run hotter?  I installed laptop-tools, but didn't configure it as I didn't understand how, and it doesn't seem to be helping.  And neither is that extra line i put in the kernel line of menu.lst that I found in the [SOLVED] Huge power consumption after upgrading kernel thread.

Any other ideas?  I just had to reinstall GRUB and such because the system shut itself down during the middle of an upgrade.  Pain in the butt.

dobedo

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From: Belgium

Registered: 2008-10-04

Posts: 113

Re: Disable Auto-shutdown

does htop or top report something?

anonymous_user

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Registered: 2009-08-28

Posts: 3,059

Re: Disable Auto-shutdown

This page should have lots of info to help you lower the power consumption hence temps:

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Laptop

Vapourstreak

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Registered: 2011-02-04

Posts: 37

Re: Disable Auto-shutdown

Well I did all it told me to do in cpufrequtils, and my temperatures are around 75C now, would that be okay?

EDIT: Wait no it's hitting the 90's again.  Anything more I can do?  Ice packs?

Last edited by Vapourstreak (2011-10-15 03:09:31)