Laptop friendly Linux distros

[Dave Germiquet]

I have a laptop and i remeber there's a kernel option to keep it from
running FULL Power so your chip won't overheat ...

i think anyway i can't recall

On 6/21/06, Martin Duclos <tchitow-PkbjNfxxIARBDgjK7y7TUQ at public.gmane.org> wrote:
>
> On Wednesday 21 June 2006 10:47, teddy mills wrote:
> > I have no problem with running Linux on desktops because there are few
> > thermal issues.
> > I do have a problem with running Linux on laptops, because I do not know
> > what to look for to get the proper thermal support.
> > I mean it has to be more than APIC thermal/fan level control?
> >
> > Most Linux distros I have seen,  almost never turns on a laptop cpu fan
> > at random times, no matter how hot the laptop is getting
> > Can you recommend a distro that I can safely run on a laptop? Thank you
> > in advance!
>
> Ubuntu Dapper - 6.06 works flawlessly on my laptop. Power management,
> performance profiles, hibernate, suspend to ram all work fine.
>
> Acer TravelMate 4400
> AMD Turion ML30 64bit
>
> I have also installed it on many other laptops with the same results.
>
>
> I run FC5 on my laptop and it power management works fine for the most
> part.
> However, there seems to be a problem with CPU frequency. It's always at
> half
> the speen the CPU should run at even when the laptop is plugged in. Anyone
> has experience with that particular problem?
> Martin
>
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