Comment 44 for bug 432670

Rolf, thanks for taking your time.

a) How do I download a Lucid kernel for Karmic? Or do you mean I should try installing an entire Lucid on her laptop? I'm already using Lucid on my own laptop, but don't want to bother her with the possible problems of alpha releases (although it may be better than overheating).

b) I'll try that next time I get close to her computer.

c, d) I already tried both, but that doesn't seem to make any difference (I settled on ondemand). It's a 2GHz CPU, but the heating didn't seem to stop even when idling at 500MHz. I also checked top but no programs seemed to be consuming huge amounts of CPU. Firefox was at the top with about 7-8%, as far as I remember. I'll check up on that. But then again: The temperature was at 90+ and the fan running wild even when the CPU scaled down to 500MHz.

I'll get back with some results as soon as possible and comment in the kernel.org bug.