Natty heats up Sony Vaio Laptop

Wed May 4 14:57:20 UTC 2011

On Thursday 28 April 2011 17:17:26 Chhatoi Pritam Baral wrote:
> I am not sure as to what causes this, but whenever I log into natty, my
> mobo temp shoots above 65. Sometimes it goes above 70-75 too. The fan is
> controlled directly by the BIOS. I have  that had no luck in directly
> controlling the fan through the OS ( even in Maverick, Lucid, or Windows).
> So, I guess its some system process that keeps the processors super busy,
> or perhaps a power management leak.
> 
> Could it be 'cause of the GPU drivers? Mine are ATI fglrx from the repos.
> 
> Does anyone have any insight on this.

Maybe this bug:

https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/760131

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