This post may not seems to have any tips. But you may find.

Finally, I have my laptop(obviously i don’t want to say it is mine) in my hand. It is a HP pavilion g series laptop with windows 7 pre installed(it was bought for my sister and she don’t like to use it any more, since she utilized all demo gaming coins in the HP game center).

As a fond of Linux,I was so curious to fire up the box with the great engineering work by Mr.Torvalds. Initially I started experimenting the stuff with live CDs. While testing I experienced “Thermal Shutdown” warning in the BIOS screen for each cold and warm boot.

But unfortunately my mind started to think like “I can tweak it after the installation.”

I don’t have any x86_64 versions of installation mediums. Finally decided to go with Ubuntu 11.10 32 bit version.

My system configuration is,

Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-2410M CPU @ 2.30GHz

4G of RAM

720 GB of HDD with 5200 rpm

1G of ATI Radeon

I Completely swiped out Mr.Windows 7(useless) and installed Ubuntu.

As said earlier, decided to google and fix the “Thermal Shutdown” issue. I was shocked to see the solution from askubuntu.

Yes, it is typically a BIOS issue and only BIOS upgrade will fix this issue. But HP’s BIOS can’t be upgrad from Linux and requires Windows 7 ( though I thought it was useless, for the first time i’m going to windows 7 for a useful purpose. Windows is great right..?).

But without doing the BIOS upgrade immediately I approached HP technical support. They kicked me and ordered(really they shouldn’t, but they did) to install Mr.Factory OS called windows 7. I don’t want to start 3rd world war, so ended the conversation with HP.

There was no way for me other than installing Windows 7 to upgrade the BIOS. Installed Windows 7 and did the things.

New BIOS was installed and there was no “Thermal Shutdown” warning. Positive!!!.

But now new issue is popping out!!!. Brightness is reset 0 for while booting. Yes, it is ACPI issue. I found no proper solution other than workaround to fix it.

##put it on /etc/rc.local

‘echo 10 | sudo tee>cat /sys/class/backlight/acpi_video0/brightness’

Please force the HP to concentrate for these kind of compatibility issue.

Here you can find some tricks and tips to tweak your linux box. So it is just like a forum for open minded peoples!!!

“A world without walls and fence!!!Why we need gates and windows!!!”

Please switch to Linux!!! Enjoy the world without ill(viruses)..