Fedora causes laptop to overheat

[M. Fioretti]

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:

http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/document?cc=us&lc=en&dlc=en&docname=c03000297

any input/request to test stuf to diagnose and fix this is welcome

Marco