On Sat, Dec 25, 2010 at 10:12 PM, Manikandan B <[email protected]>wrote:
> > This behaviour is strange. I strongly suspect that it is an issue with the > OS support on power management. You need certain drivers to put the > peripherals to sleep or power save mode which might not have been supported > or properly done in Linux. > Did you see the same behaviour in the default windows install that you > would have got when you purchased the laptop ? If you did not, then it is an > issue of OS/drivers rather than the laptop itself. > At the time I bought the laptop and came across the heat issue, I searched and came across other reviews of the same model that highlighted it. So, I just assumed that's how it is! Any way I can verify its a driver issue? Anyway, I'm planning to upgrade to Ubuntu 10.10 this week (am on 8.10!) and hope you are right and the heat issue vanishes :-) thanks, mano -- Computers are useless. They can only give you answers. -- Pablo Picasso _______________________________________________ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
