Just as a note to my above comment. I went and nuked the same laptop, and put Gentoo Linux 2006.0 on it. I did an emerge of gnome, which took about 12hrs to compile and it would never overheat.
Then, I went and installed S.L.E.D. ( Novell's Suse Linux Enterprise Desktop ), and I was able to play a video for as long as I wanted without any problems. Did anyone find a fix for this yet? I was thinking about trying FC6-T2 just as another definative test, but... I'm missing Ubuntu. :( -- laptop overheats when performing CPU intensive tasks. https://launchpad.net/bugs/22336 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
