Natty heats up Sony Vaio Laptop

[Alan Pope]

On 28 April 2011 18:57, Samuel <samuel.derous at scarlet.be> wrote:
> I've read there are some serious power regression problems in the Linux kernel
> from 2.6.38, which seems to use from 10% to 30% more energy...
> Sinds I upgrade my kernel I have heard my fans doing a lot more work than
> usual. I don't know that's the problem, though.
>

I had a chat with one of the kernel team at the release party last
night. He confirmed that the kernel in natty suffers from this power
issue, and that the upstream Linux Kernel guys are having difficulty
identifying the cause themselves.

Al.