Hello Prasanna,

On Sat, Nov 26, 2011 at 7:24 PM, Prasanna Venkadesh <[email protected]>wrote:

> On Fri, Nov 25, 2011 at 2:51 PM, Prasanna Venkadesh <[email protected]
> >wrote:
>
> >
> >
> > > Adding pcie_aspm = force to my grub file made my battery to fail soon
> >> after
> >> > 3-4 weeks i made change in it and from today morning i am getting the
> >> > problem of overheating in my HP Pavilion Dm4 model laptop. What could
> be
> >> > the reason for this. When i boot into windows and check battery status
> >> it
> >> > says ("Consider Changing your battery") and overheating continues in
> >> > Windows too... This is really a serious problem now with modern
> kernels.
> >> > Any solutions? or suggestions?
> >>
> >> Instead of using pcie_aspm=force you can upgrade to latest kernel (git)
> as
> >> patches to solve this pcie power management solution is added there. You
> >> can read more
> >>
> >>
> http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=linux_aspm_solution&num=1
> >> .
> >>
> >
> > " There's just too many hardware devices that don't properly support the
> > ASPM power-saving modes." and i think mine is one of them. So added this
> > line caused my hardware to struck with overheating.
> >
>
> I made a fresh install of Fedora 16 replacing Ubuntu 11.10 and now i do not
> have overheating problem but due to my battery being affected because of
> above problem mentioned i think i should consider changing battery and even
> Fedora 16 runs on kernel 3.1 so this also consumes power but at a rate less
> than Ubuntu. Hoping for some patches and fixes in kernel 3.2.
>

This issue has been fixed for latest kernel, though it doesn't make it for
3.2.

More info -
http://linux.slashdot.org/story/11/11/11/2036245/linux-kernel-power-bug-is-fixed

Thanks
Nagappan

>
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> Prasanna Venkadesh
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