Laptop gets heated up very early

[Goudar Vishwanathappa Manu]

Hello,
I use Compaq Presario V3133AU which has AMD Turion 64bit processor
with Nvidia C51 chipset. I run 64bit F7 and it gets heated up early.
If I keep it on without running anything also it heats up and most of
the time fan is running. Is this normal?
I get the following output when I run
$ cat /proc/acpi/processor/CPU0/info
processor id:            0
acpi id:                 0
bus mastering control:   yes
power management:        no
throttling control:      yes
limit interface:         yes

I am not understanding why power management is no.
I will be thankful for your help.

[Jim Cornette]

Goudar Vishwanathappa Manu wrote:
> Hello,
> I use Compaq Presario V3133AU which has AMD Turion 64bit processor
> with Nvidia C51 chipset. I run 64bit F7 and it gets heated up early.
> If I keep it on without running anything also it heats up and most of
> the time fan is running. Is this normal?
> I get the following output when I run
> $ cat /proc/acpi/processor/CPU0/info
> processor id:            0
> acpi id:                 0
> bus mastering control:   yes
> power management:        no
> throttling control:      yes
> limit interface:         yes
>
> I am not understanding why power management is no.
> I will be thankful for your help.

If you are lucky, one of the many options to force acpi to be 
functional. I used to have a problem with the cpufrequency and powernow 
not working with smp kernels. It is fixed now for 32-bit. Maybe there is 
a bug in the software.

No, the power management should be yes.

Can you find the cpu frequency applet ad slow down the cpu frequency 
with the applet?

Jim

[Goudar Vishwanathappa Manu]

> No, the power management should be yes.
> Can you find the cpu frequency applet ad slow down the cpu frequency
> with the applet?

Yes there is a cpu frequency applet it supports two frequencies 800
and 1600MHz. Usually machine runs at 800Mhz. I think AMD Turion
processor has more frequency states. But only two are visible.
When I see the what all types of governors are available, I see there
are three governors

$ cat /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/cpufreq/scaling_available_governors
ondemand userspace performance

My machine uses ondemand.

I googled how man types of governors are available in some link I
found there are 5 governors. "conservative, ondemand, powersave,
userspace, performance". As I am an end user I don't know much. But I
want to know what I am getting is normal or not?
Even I do have a Nvidia graphics card its core temperature is always
reaches about 70 degree Centigrade. I think this is the one which
heats up my machine a lot.

Regards