Approaching CPU fan management in OpenBSD ... and a bug enters Debian Lenny

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I'm starting with the sensorsd.conf and sensorsd man pages. And this page from Calomel.org has some tips on what /etc/sensorsd.conf does, how to start the sensorsd daemon.

I'm not holding my breath, but if I could run OpenBSD (or FreeBSD or NetBSD) on my Gateway Solo 1450 laptop with the fan properly managed, I'd love to be dual-booting it with Debian.

Debian Lenny note: While many bugs seemingly got fixed in the Epiphany Web browser in Lenny, one new bug unfortunately has crept in.

Whenever you start the Epiphany browser, the check box to "work offline" is automatically checked. And the result is that you get versions of Web pages that you looked at the last time you were working "online." It's like a freaky time machine. Right now, you have to go under the file menu and uncheck the "work offiline" box to get Epiphany to pull up real live Web pages. I did see a bug report for this, sort of, but it doesn't seem current, and it seems to say that the problem is with the network manager (gconf??) rather than with Epiphany itself. This Ubuntu report is exactly what is happening. Whatever's causing the problem, I hope it gets resolved soon; I'm partial to Epiphany when using GNOME, but I've switched over to Iceweasel (aka Firefox) just to be rid of this bug.


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