[CentOS] CentOS 7 + Dell Latitude E6420 laptop = thermal shutdown

Mon Jun 15 14:02:37 UTC 2015
deoren <centos-list at whyaskwhy.org>

On 6/12/2015 4:10 AM, johan.vermeulen7 at telenet.be wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I had C6 running on a lot of Latitude E6500 laptops and I now have C7 on all of them, and I do
> not have any complaints on overheating. In fact, I get no complaints at all on the laptop, apart from being heavy.
> I never had that on any laptop running Centos, and I have about 7 different models in use, Acer and Dell.
>
> I'm  now working on a Latitude E6320. Yesterday, when burning a dvd, it became a bit warm, but no real issues.
> No experience with E6420 though, sorry.
>
> Greetings, Johan

Thanks for the feedback. Did you have to install or configure any packages differently for the laptops than you would a desktop?