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[Sue Bennett]

>You might check /boot/grub/grub.conf and make sure that the 
"no-hlt" option is not being passed to the kernel.

[root at localhost sueben]# cat /boot/grub/grub.conf
# grub.conf generated by anaconda
#
# Note that you do not have to rerun grub after making changes to 
this file
# NOTICE:  You do not have a /boot partition.  This means that
#          all kernel and initrd paths are relative to /, eg.
#          root (hd0,6)
#          kernel /boot/vmlinuz-version ro root=/dev/hda7
#          initrd /boot/initrd-version.img
#boot=/dev/hda
default=0
timeout=10
splashimage=(hd0,6)/boot/grub/splash.xpm.gz
title Red Hat Linux (2.4.18-14)
        root (hd0,6)
        kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.4.18-14 ro root=LABEL=/ 
hdd=ide-scsi
        initrd /boot/initrd-2.4.18-14.img
title DOS
        rootnoverify (hd0,0)
        chainloader +1
[root at localhost sueben]#

>Also, I assume the computer is mostly idle after completely 
>booting, can you verify that with the output from the "top" 
>command?  The three Load Average #'s should all be near
> 0.00 if the computer is just sitting there.

  PID USER     PRI  NI  SIZE  RSS SHARE STAT %CPU %MEM   TIME 
COMMAND
  734 root       5 -10 64700  14M  6380 S <   0.5  2.9   2:43 X
  814 sueben    15   0  5856 5852  4960 S     0.3  1.1   0:08 
magicdev
  987 sueben    15   0  8764 8760  6764 R     0.3  1.7   0:12 
gnome-terminal
 1404 root      15   0  1032 1032   840 R     0.3  0.2   0:00 top
    1 root      15   0   480  480   428 S     0.0  0.0   0:04 
init


> Try "modprobe apm" and see if it goes away within a few
> minutes.

bash-2.05b$ modprobe apm
bash: modprobe: command not found
bash-2.05b$

where should this command be located?

> Alternate strategy:
> Install the "apmd" package via whatever means RedHat 8.0 
> uses to make this easiest.  
> Make sure it starts at bootup.  Run "service apmd start" and 
> see if the fan stops.  (give it a few minutes)

I see the APM demon starting at bootup with a status of OK.
Just for the heck of it I tried to reinstall it with the 
following result.

[root at localhost root]# apt-get install apmd
Reading Package Lists... Done
Collecting File Provides... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
Sorry, apmd is already the newest version.