On Sat, Apr 11, 2009 at 02:26:30PM +0200, Aleksa Šušulić wrote: > The laptop is less than a year old and still in warranty. It has never been > used in dusty or dirty places. And this overheating only happens with Debian > (installing OpenSuSE or Mandriva or Ubuntu or Fedora works a breeze). The > only > other instance it does happen is when my current OpenSuSE system freezes > (stops responding), ramping up the CPU to 100% usage: if I don't switch to a > virtual terminal and reboot within, say, 10 minutes, the laptop will shut > itself off from overheating. Hence my assumption that the machine simply is > not DESIGNED to work at full throttle (100% CPU usage) for any length of > time. > But I may be wrong, of course.
I had similar problems with my previous laptop (some Dell, based on a Pentuim 4). It indeed had poor power management and overheated on e.g. upgrading the TeX packages or on large builds. A cooling board helped to ease the pain but if the CPU worked hard enough, it would eventually shut down. My current laptop is a Dell Latitude D630 with Core 2 Duo T7500, and does not overheat. -- Tzafrir Cohen | tzaf...@jabber.org | VIM is http://tzafrir.org.il | | a Mutt's tzaf...@cohens.org.il | | best ICQ# 16849754 | | friend -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
