Out of curiosity, have you tried any liveCDs from another distro? I
would be interested to see what the latest Ubuntu release does.
-- Kimball
On Mar 19, 2007, at 11:43 AM, Matthew Frederico wrote:
Thanks for the response Shane.
How did you find out what the video card temperature is?
I have the proprietary nvidia drivers installed -
[Gnome] applications -> system tools -> NVIDIA X Server Settings
There is an option there for Thermal Monitor
This page has the specs for your laptop:
http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/genericDocument?
docname=c00771290&cc=us&dlc
Yeah, I saw that page ... Unfortunately doesn't shed any light - and
neither did HP tech support. I guess I'll just run windows.
After all,
its just a tool to get a specific job done .. right?
Are you running one of the 3D window managers, such as Compiz or
Beryl?
They use OpenGL for everything. I've heard that Windows Vista also
uses 3D everywhere, but I don't know if that's true. On a laptop,
it's
better to stick with something simpler like GNOME, KDE, or XFCE.
I run gnome, and Beryl lets me turn on the eye-candy just fine. If
I am
running it or not, it still gets piping hot.
I bet I am missing some key power-saving mode or something.
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