hp compaq nx7400

[Mark Greenwood]

On Friday 12 Jun 2009 12:00:55 O. Sinclair wrote:
> Does anyone have experience from the HP Compaq nx7400  laptop? have 
> installed it and it really misbehaves. Very little info on internet 
> except for suspend/hibernate problem that I fixed.
> 
> But it shows no CPU in the powermanager.. and it should show 2. It runs 
> warmer than I think it should and it eats battery in no time.

Just a guess, on the thing about it running too warm, if it has an nvidia graphics card make sure you install the 'restricted' driver. Running modern nvidia cards in laptops with the open source driver will always make them overheat.

Mark

> 
> any ideas, fixes, pointers welcome
> 
> Sinclair
>