Yaroslav Sapozhnyk wrote:
I have Thinkpad T500 laptop with Fedora 14 KDE installed. Before the
KDE
4.6 update the idle CPU temperature was ~42C. However after the update the
CPU temperature varies between 48-50C.
50°C is a perfectly safe temperature for your CPU.
I noticed that the lm_sensors-lib package was also updated so I
downgraded
it. But it didn't help. Testing the initial Fedora 14 KDE LiveUSB the CPU
temperature was about 40C so it's not hardware problem.
The change may be related to the fact that KDE's PowerDevil was using HAL
for power management, and now uses upower instead.
I did notice that the fan speeds differ from the LiveUSB system now
(e.g.
for the same temperature LiveUSB fan speed is higher - so the CPU temp is
lower).
Lower fan speed = less noise and less power consumption.
So why are you complaining? :-)
Kevin Kofler