DJ Delorie wrote:
What's the current "right" way to tell Linux (F10 in my case) to slow
down the CPU speed when the core temperature is too high?  (aside from
the box's built-in "turn on wind turbines before it melts" option ;)

  
Have you taken a look at sensors-applet (http://sensors-applet.sourceforge.net)?

It works on my Toshiba laptop running Fedora 10.  I found it the other day already installed on my laptop which means that I probably downloaded it from one the standard repositories that I use for Fedora 10 or that it was part of the Fedora 10 DVD iso image since I did not install it from SourceForge.net.

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  Steven F. LeBrun

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