Re: Laptop producing more heat in Linux

2010-12-02 Thread Paul Cartwright
On 12/02/2010 10:11 AM, Jörg-Volker Peetz wrote: > A good starting point for decreasing power consumption with linux is > www.lesswatts.org I was just going to mention that, so I WILL give that a +1 !!! powertop.. used it long ago with good results. http://www.lesswatts.org/projects/powertop/down

Re: Laptop producing more heat in Linux

2010-12-02 Thread Jörg-Volker Peetz
A good starting point for decreasing power consumption with linux is www.lesswatts.org -- Best regards, Jörg-Volker. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/i

Re: Laptop producing more heat in Linux

2010-12-02 Thread Dotan Cohen
On Thu, Dec 2, 2010 at 14:45, Klistvud wrote: > Yes, there is. When designing hardware, vendors work hand in hand with > Microsoft to optimize their hardware for Windows. Drivers have to be > certified by Microsoft for the hardware to be allowed to run Windows at all > (at least this was the case

Re: Laptop producing more heat in Linux

2010-12-02 Thread Klistvud
Dne, 02. 12. 2010 06:10:13 je Kousik Maiti napisal(a): I have a Laptop with Multiple OS(M$,Debian5,Ubuntu9.04). Recently I have noticed my system produces more heat when I am using Linux OS.Is there any specific reason? Yes, there is. When designing hardware, vendors work hand in hand with

Re: Laptop producing more heat in Linux

2010-12-01 Thread T o n g
On Thu, 02 Dec 2010 10:40:13 +0530, Kousik Maiti wrote: > I have > noticed my system produces more heat when I am using Linux OS Have you installed cpufrequtils to enable ondemand cpufreq governor by default? -- Tong (remove underscore(s) to reply) http://xpt.sourceforge.net/techdocs/ htt

Laptop producing more heat in Linux

2010-12-01 Thread Kousik Maiti
I have a Laptop with Multiple OS(M$,Debian5,Ubuntu9.04). Recently I have noticed my system produces more heat when I am using Linux OS.Is there any specific reason? Thanks in advance. -- Wishing you the very best of everything, always!!! Kousik Maiti(কৌশিক মাইতি) Registered Linux User #474025 Re