[Bug 660273] Re: 10de:0a75 [Sony VAIO VPCF11KFX] Xorg freeze

2013-12-17 Thread Christopher M. Penalver
Serge Hallyn, as an off-topic discussion, as discussed in https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kernel/Debugging/HighTemperatures#Working_around_overheat many have successfully managed overheat (myself included) by governoring their CPU to powersave via a terminal: sudo cpufreq-selector --cpu=0 --governor=pow

Re: [Bug 660273] Re: 10de:0a75 [Sony VAIO VPCF11KFX] Xorg freeze

2013-12-17 Thread Serge Hallyn
Quoting Graham Ranger (660...@bugs.launchpad.net): > For what it's worth, I was having similar problems, and had almost > concluded it was time to change an admittedly old computer (9-10 years). > I had decided it was the graphics card overheating. As a last ditch > attempt, I took the card out and

[Bug 660273] Re: 10de:0a75 [Sony VAIO VPCF11KFX] Xorg freeze

2013-12-16 Thread Graham Ranger
For what it's worth, I was having similar problems, and had almost concluded it was time to change an admittedly old computer (9-10 years). I had decided it was the graphics card overheating. As a last ditch attempt, I took the card out and gave it a thorough clean. This was a good month ago and I'