[Mageia-discuss] Laptop running hot

[Olivier Blin]

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.

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Olivier Blin - blino