Aleksa Šušulić: > > The laptop is less than a year old and still in warranty. It has never been > used in dusty or dirty places.
That's not necessary for dust to enter the system.
> And this overheating only happens with Debian
> (installing OpenSuSE or Mandriva or Ubuntu or Fedora works a breeze).
Ok. Then I would try to find out how these distributions operate the CPU
(clockspeed, governor) and make the Debian installer do the same. I bet
it's just the installer anyway. After (if not during) installation,
Debian should operate your CPU the same way all other distros do.
> As a sidenote: I've found a thread on internet a while ago stating that you
> may risk overheating and even frying a laptop if you try installing Windows98
> as a virtual machine, since Windows98 does not support the CPU "idle"
> instruction. I assume something vaguely similar may be going on here.
The linux kernel in the Debian installer definitely supports the IDLE
command. The only parameters of operation that I see are clockspeed and
governor.
> Modern laptops with fairly powerful CPUs apparently rely on certain
> subsystems of the OS to effectively prevent overheating. If some of
> those subsystems don't work as expected, overheating will occur. I
> find it hard to believe there aren't more laptop users with this sort
> of problems...
I really find it hard to believe that HP builds laptops not designed for
usage. For me, this would definitely be a reason to return it.
J.
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