On 12/11/2011 11:16 PM, Genes MailLists wrote: > On 12/11/2011 10:48 PM, M. Fioretti wrote: >> On Sun, Dec 11, 2011 20:35:31 PM +0100, Christopher Svanefalk wrote: >> >>> one of the things I noticed rather fast was how much cooler my >>> system runs under XP... The HDD becomes unreasonably hot >> I am noticing similar behavior (and the consequent much shorter >> battery time) on a HP Pavilion g6-1273sl with these hw components: >> > This is often due to dual graphics cards - the problem arises when one > is being used you think (say the intel i915) - the other one is actually > not off unless you work at it. > > The problem I saw solved used vga switcheroo to turn off the second > card - this was a bit manual as i recall (was also HP laptop). > > Symptom was same - very very bad battery life, and enormous temps. > > You can check this using powertop app and see where the battery is going. > > If you are have lenovo, you can solve this by turning second card off > in bios - sadly HP does not seem to offer that option ... OK. I have a brand new x120e. How do I figure out if it has 2 graphic cards and do I need them. BTW, I DO use the external video VGA. Both to my KVM at home and to projectors at meetings. -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
