Standy mode: laptop hotter in linux than in windows ?

Thinkpad T42, debian etch
Standby works with no problem, but the area at the bottom directly below the touchpad stays warm. In windows its cooler.

Any idea what is going on ?

Also, I can only do standy when loggen in. If I try to do standy at the login menu, there is some kernel panic error and laptop hangs.

 

Can you tell us what components are located in the warmer area? Perhaps the hard drive? How does the laptop handle hibernation?

 

My touchpad temperature is related to my CPU temp. Hotter CPU temp means hotter touchpad for me. As for components, I think i have air vents under my touchpad...

And I can't get standby or hibernate... heheheh

 

There is
-Mini PCI adapter
-Backup battery
-GPU ?

Its not hibernating, its standby (to ram).
I'm not sure how the laptop handles it. Everything seems to be off when its in standby.

Standby was working out of the box, I did not any configuring. And its super fast (like 5 secs to go to standby, and to wake up)

 

I was actually asking specifically about hibernation.

Anyway, I've searched Google, the Debian forums, and the Ubuntu forums. I can't find any problems similar to yours. Could you tell me what the kernel panic says? This would help a lot. If the message disappears too quickly, you could try taking a picture of it and attaching it to your next post.

 

Thanks for looking into this

This time at pressing the sleep button, at login menu, it did not hang, but it kept displaying this message in an infinite loop:

Code:

atkbd.c: Spurious ACK on isa0060/serio60, Some program might be trying to access hardware directly.

The next time, it had kernel panic:
http://img408.imageshack.us/img408/7968/kernelpanicwp5.jpg

This is thinkpad T42, 2Ghz Dothan, 2GB ram, ati mobeility radeon 7500 machine.

 

Ok, another mini-problem.
When I close the lid, it goes to standy, when I open it, it wakes up. How do I disable this feature ?