[Mageia-discuss] Laptop running hot

Sun Aug 12 01:35:04 CEST 2012

Max Quarterpleen <bogusman222 at gmail.com> writes:
+
+>> Have you tried playing around with the power saving options attached
+>> to the battery widget?  I've never been convinced that it's a good
+>> place for them, but as long as they are available I don't suppose it
+>> matters where, and there is a sort of logic, in that battery powered
+>> devices are more power-sensitive.
+>>
+>
+> Yeah, that was the first place I looked.
+> The only things one can adjust there are actions performed when buttons
+> pressed/lid closed and the screen brightness. There does not seem to be an
+> easy to to configure CPU levels.
+> There is, however, an option to run a script. So supposedly someone could
+> write a script that will limit the CPU levels, but that's a little beyond
+> me.
+
+Hi,
+
+Do you have the cpufreq package installed?
+By default, it sets your CPU governor to ondemand, which adapts the
+CPU frequency according to the power needs.
+
+-- 
+Olivier Blin - blino
+