how to reduce heat on an old Wyse thin client

Posts: 7
chav
Joined: 15 Feb 2016
#1
Hello everyone, apoloigies I barely know how to operate my mouse. I have a Wyse terminal that runs hot and i would like to be able to use power management to turn off the HDD or make the processor run in some form of power savings when idle. Any idea how I might attempt that? My antiX is fresh out of the box, defaults only. My Wyse thin client is quite a nice little box to ressurect with antix, but it is chucking out so much heat it seems a bit of a shame. Thanks in advance for any tips!!

PS I did find something about gnome ppower management and it does mention HDDs but I couldnt find how to operate the tool.

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$ inxi -Fxz
System:    Host: antix1-wyse Kernel: 4.0.5-antix.1-486-smp i686 (32 bit gcc: 4.9.2)
           Desktop: IceWM 1.3.8
           Distro: antiX-15-V_386-full Killah P 30 June 2015
Machine:   System: WYSE product: V CLASS L v: Rev: 1.16
           Mobo: N/A model: CN900-8237R
           Bios: VIA v: Rev: 1.16 date: 02/15/2008
CPU:       Single core VIA Eden (-UP-) cache: 128 KB
           flags: (pae sse sse2 sse3) bmips: 1600 speed: 800 MHz (max)
Graphics:  Card: VIA CN700/P4M800 Pro/P4M800 CE/VN800 Graphics [S3 UniChrome Pro]
           bus-ID: 01:00.0
           Display Server: X.Org 1.16.4 drivers: openchrome (unloaded: fbdev,vesa)
           Resolution: 1024x768@60.00hz
           GLX Renderer: Gallium 0.4 on llvmpipe (LLVM 3.5, 128 bits)
           GLX Version: 3.0 Mesa 10.3.2 Direct Rendering: Yes
Audio:     Card VIA VT8233/A/8235/8237 AC97 Audio Controller
           driver: snd_via82xx port: e400 bus-ID: 00:11.5
           Sound: Advanced Linux Sound Architecture v: k4.0.5-antix.1-486-smp
Network:   Card: VIA VT6102 [Rhine-II]
           driver: via-rhine port: fc00 bus-ID: 00:0b.0
           IF: eth0 state: unknown speed: 100 Mbps duplex: full mac: <filter>
Drives:    HDD Total Size: 40.0GB (11.5% used)
           ID-1: /dev/sda model: ST9408114A size: 40.0GB
Partition: ID-1: / size: 35G used: 2.4G (8%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/sda1
           ID-2: swap-1 size: 2.18GB used: 0.00GB (0%) fs: swap dev: /dev/sda2
Sensors:   System Temperatures: cpu: 63.0C mobo: N/A
           Fan Speeds (in rpm): cpu: N/A
Info:      Processes: 90 Uptime: 1 min Memory: 81.7/466.5MB
           Init: SysVinit runlevel: 5 Gcc sys: 4.9.2
           Client: Shell (bash 4.3.301) inxi: 2.2.25
Posts: 4,164
rokytnji
Joined: 20 Feb 2009

18 Feb 2016, 15:15 #2

Try out

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xfce4-power-manager/jessie 1.4.1-2.0nosystemd1 i386
  power manager for Xfce desktop
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But where I live it gets to be 115F outside during the summer so no software can overcome that. __{{emoticon}}__
Posts: 521
Shay
Joined: 20 Apr 2015
#3
Another possibility