[ubuntu-za] Laptop Overheating - HP Envy M6

[Hilton Gibson]

I agree with Percy. Use the LTS versions of Ubuntu.
On 17 Jan 2014 12:35, "Percy Langa" <percylanga at gmail.com> wrote:

>
> On 2014/01/17 10:02 AM, Dominic Parker wrote:
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>> Good day All,
>>
> Howzat Dominic
>
>>
>> Hope you are well.
>>
>> Could someone please assist me with the following:
>>
>> I have recently converted from Mac to Ubuntu [snip]
>>
> Interesting move. Did you have the Intel-chip Mac? If yes, you can install
> Ubuntu on it. Just a thought.
>
>  and I am enjoying it as well as the community, unfortunately I have
>> experienced an issue I have been unable to resolve. I installed 13.10 on a
>> newly purchased laptop, HP Envy M6, wiping of its factory Windows
>> installation. I experienced low battery life and overheating which I
>> researched and found that installing and running TLP would be a possible
>> solution. After the installation, startup of TLP and rebooting the laptop I
>> was unable to see any change. Further research showed it could be an issue
>> with 13.10 and a older version could resolve the issue. So I installed
>> Elementary OS and still experienced the problem. After installing TLP again
>> and rebooting the machine the laptop was unable to boot into the OS. Now
>> the laptop doesn't have anything on it that I need, I was able to copy off
>> my data running the OS off a USB and using the CLI to login.
>>
>> What I would like to know is if there is a solution for the over heating
>> issue as it is I really don't wanna burn it out.
>>
> I did a quick google search and noticed few issues with Ubuntu on Envy M6
> (wifi, video, bios, power management). I would recommend Ubuntu LTS or one
> of the Ubuntu flavours (Kubuntu, Lubuntu, Xubuntu, etc.), unless you prefer
> Unity.
>
> Good luck.
>
> Cheers!
> Percy
>
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