On 6 Dec 2011, at 17:00, Terry Coles wrote: > On Tuesday 06 Dec 2011 14:57:20 Adrian Howard wrote: >> Pretty much worked out of the box :-) Huzzah! > > Great!. > >> Running pretty hot, and the trackpad scrolling isn't working - but that's >> likely fixable with some tweakage. > > Which distro are you using? Some of the last kernel versions in the 2.6 > series had a bug that made them use too much power. That may be the cause of > the hot running. (Or maybe it would do that anyway.) > > Our X10 runs reasonably cool using Ubuntu 10.10, which has a V 3.0.x kernel. > However, no X86 series Netbook is that good, because they are generally > running on fairly power-hungry chips.
Latest ubuntu. It's probably a sensible temperature - just seems warm compared to the old one. I'll take a proper poke at it when I get some spare time - but at the moment my partner would rather just use it rather than have me tweak things. > Paul's Asus Transformer Tablet (with K/B dock) runs a lot cooler, but that on > ARM and costs about twice as much as a Netbook. Yeah... I'd have had one of those if I had the spare cash :) Cheers, Adrian -- http://quietstars.com [email protected] twitter.com/adrianh t. +44 (0)7752 419080 skype adrianjohnhoward del.icio.us/adrianh -- Next meeting: Bournemouth, Tuesday 2012-01-?? 20:00 Meets, Mailing list, IRC, LinkedIn, ... http://dorset.lug.org.uk/ New thread on mailing list: mailto:[email protected] How to Report Bugs Effectively: http://goo.gl/4Xue
