Natty heats up Sony Vaio Laptop

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On 04/28/2011 08:17 AM, Chhatoi Pritam Baral wrote:
> I am not sure as to what causes this, but whenever I log into natty, my mobo
> temp shoots above 65. Sometimes it goes above 70-75 too. The fan is
> controlled directly by the BIOS. I have  that had no luck in directly
> controlling the fan through the OS ( even in Maverick, Lucid, or Windows).
> So, I guess its some system process that keeps the processors super busy, or
> perhaps a power management leak.
> 
> Could it be 'cause of the GPU drivers? Mine are ATI fglrx from the repos.
...

That would be my guess. I've been running natty on an HP G60 laptop for
some time now. The laptop also has maverick on it & I monitor the cpu &
temps on both when they are booted. Natty actually runs cooler (about
1-2C less) than maverick. But I suspect that is because I have more
services running on maverick when booted.

My video:
*-display:0
description: VGA compatible controller
product: Mobile 4 Series Chipset Integrated Graphics Controller
vendor: Intel Corporation

with no additional proprietary hardware drivers.