Tom Duerbusch wrote: ..
When I boot Linux, I got about 20 minutes before the G40 overheats. It shuts down and you have to wait until it cools off, disconnect the power and take out the battery, put everything back and you then can power up again.
You'll want to experiment with acpi and apm settings. Try everything off first. Then try apm on, acpi off. Then try acpi on, apm off (which is probably what your are doing right now). Often times there is a BIOS setting to run the fan even while connected to AC... turn that on (laptops run WAY to hot... there is NO concern about proper cooling anymore... NONE!). We have deployed about 30 Compaq n610c laptops as Linux clients.... it was tricky, but we made SUSE work... and it works, we could not get RH to work reliably on the platform. We had to do several tricks. One was the fan. However, even so, if you have a high speed (5400rpm) drive in the unit, the drive will eventually overheat with time. VERY bad ventilation design. Btw... this overheat is regardless of OS (the Windows guys are dropping drives as well).
I don't think Compaq actively ships the n610c (I think they may do the n620c or n630c)... send me direct mail if you want "the tricks" for the screen blanking issue in particular. I'm not posting it here now, just because I'm away from notes at the moment. But I'll share if there is any interest.
