Re: HP G60-249WM Notebook overheats (on lenny)
On Sat, 2009-10-24 at 10:35 +0200, Klistvud wrote:
> Dne, 24. 10. 2009 05:40:01 je Brian C. Wells napisal(a):
> > On Fri, 2009-10-23 at 21:15 -0400, Stefan Monnier wrote:
> > > > evidence that the CPU's temperature is increasing to dangerous
> > levels
> > > > (>95 deg. Celsius). As soon as I start a game, it rises, and as
> > soon as
> > > > I stop it it falls.
[...]
> > I don't -think- it's a fan problem. It seems to be blowing plenty of
> > hot air out, and I can't see or blow out any obvious clogs [...]
> > Like you say, it's probably a hardware problem, but HP might say it's
> > all Linux's fault for not using some proprietary interface. (Then
> > again, I haven't asked them. They might agree with you.)
> >
> IMHE, many HP laptops suffer from the same syndrome (just look up some
> previous messages on this very same list).
I see you were having even worse problems with this. :(
> Apparently, there are some
> aggressive powersaving quirks/tricks which are not yet present in
> Linux, but are implemented in Windows. I suspect some industry secrets
> only get revealed through closed agreements, and never released to the
> FLOSS community.
I had the same kind of suspicion.
> My HP laptop, for example, *never once* overheated in
> the few months it had Windows XP on.
This laptop came with Vista installed, but I immediately replaced it
with Debian. So I don't have a Windows trial period to compare with.
> The other factor (besides these
> quirks) must be some runaway and/or underoptimized applications in
> Linux. Currently, I'm facing severe overheating problems in Lenny on
> account of xulrunner-stub, whose CPU usage frequently jumps up to 60 or
> 70%, quickly heating up my laptop.
>
When I run glchess on my computer, the gnuchess engine actually goes to
100% (according to top), and the temperature goes up quite quickly.
sauerbraten only seems to need 60% or so, and doesn't overheat as
quickly (probably because the GPU is doing the graphics acceleration).
> My advice for your particular situation would be the following:
> 1) I vaguely recall hearing of a Nvidia-specific package for fine-
> tuning certain parameters of the Nvidia driver. It's probably related
> to the proprietary Nvidia driver and it might not even be obtainable in
> the Debian repositories, but it might potentially aid you in the issue
> at hand; so, as always, Google is your best friend;
The package is called nvidia-settings, in the contrib section, and I
already have it installed. But I don't know which settings, if any,
might help in this situation.
> 2) Facing the same problem, I made a script to toggle the powersave/
> ondemand CPU governors, so every time xulrunner-stub goes berserk, I
> press Fn-F11 (which I bound to the script) and my CPU frequency goes
> from 2 GHz to 800 MHz, cooling down the laptop in no time;
Wow. Except for the part about writing a script, I have no idea about
how to do that. Can you attach a copy of your script to the email (and
does Debian's list server forward attachments?) or can you upload the
script to a pastebin website or something? That would at least give me
an idea of what commands I would need to use.
> 3) I've also found out that nothing helps as much as regular cleaning
> all the orifices of my laptop with an industrial-grade vacuum cleaner.
I'll definitely give that a try, like the earlier post suggested. An
"industrial-grade vacuum cleaner" sounds like a floor-cleaning model,
so the same concern comes to mind about particles in the vacuum, though.
> 4) And, yes, *no two* graphics drivers behave the same with regard to
> overheating; IMHE, the proprietary fglrx ATI drivers have less
> overheating problems than the radeon and the vesa/framebuffer drivers.
Hmm. Maybe they have some of that secret technology you talked about.
> There, my 2 euro cents (as a matter of fact, is there a key combination
> for obtaining the euro cent sign, as there is AltGr-E for €?)
Wish I could help with that. Unfortunately, I'm in the US, where we know
very little about AltGr keys (or their combinations).
> --
> Good luck,
>
> Klistvud
> Certifiable Loonix User #481801
>
Thanks,
Brian
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