Overheating Laptop

[Sandy Harris]

Pastor JW <pastor_jw at the-inner-circle.org> wrote:

>> I have a Compaq R4000 laptop and it continually crashes due to
>> overheating. ...
>>
>> Under Windows I never had one issue with heat, so it must be a driver
>> problem somewhere.
>>
>> Any ideas, or is it back to Windows for this laptop?
>
> I don't understand this question as Windoze doesn't run any cooler. ...
>....  I'd suspect rather that your cooling fan for the laptop
> has given up for some reason or the inlet and/or outlet is blocked.

Yes, it is quite possible the overheating is unrelated to the OS change
and various hardware problems are worth checking for.

However, it seems to me more likely it is related to the OS,\. Perhaps
Linux does not support power management on that laptop, or it did
not get installed right, or it is misconfigured.

Power management is a bit complex. There are at least two systems,
APM and ACPI, and more than one management utility for each, and
some variations for particular hardware. Search in Synaptic, and with
man -k and Google. The answer is no doubt out there.

Sorry I cannot be more specific. Maybe someone else can jump in?

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Sandy Harris,
Nanjing, China