Opensuse on laptop

hanamilani · 06-01-2012, 02:01 PM

Hello,

I have installed Opensuse 12.1 on my DELL E6510. I am just working on the desktop and more like practicing as a newbie. But I feel that my laptop gets hot like an oven after half an hour while it does not show such a thing while I am in windows...
Is there anything wrong with my installation or is there any way to correct it?

John VV · 06-02-2012, 05:10 AM

no suse is known to be a bit bloated and drain batteries on laptops

you might want to REGISTER at Novell and have a read through the opensuse docs
-- forum
http://forums.opensuse.org/
-- docs
http://doc.opensuse.org/
-- wiki
http://en.opensuse.org/Main_Page
you might want to see the powersaving sections
http://en.opensuse.org/Powersaving

also suse has most every service turned on , you might want to turn off unneeded ones
http://en.opensuse.org/SDB:Systemd

pixellany · 06-02-2012, 05:27 AM

Even though it is for Arch, this page gives a good overview of how CPU frequency scaling works---I'm sure there is equivalent stuff for most major distros (and certainly for SUSE):
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php...quency_Scaling