Re: Fedora causes laptop to overheat

I have the same problem. with my Vaio SA25. $ sensors acpitz-virtual-0 Adapter: Virtual device temp1:+74.0°C (crit = +97.0°C) coretemp-isa- Adapter: ISA adapter Physical id 0: +74.0°C (high = +86.0°C, crit = +100.0°C) Core 0: +72.0°C (high = +86.0°C, crit = +100.0°C) Core

Re: Fedora causes laptop to overheat

UPDATE: I changed my web browser away from Epiphany, and this had a radical impact - system runs much cooler. Also, try hdparm -B 1 /dev/sd* (or be specific which discs you want to power down). Using powertop could also help. On Mon, Dec 12, 2011 at 6:10 PM, g wrote: > On 12/12/2011 01:59 PM,

Re: Fedora causes laptop to overheat

On 12/12/2011 01:59 PM, Patrick Lists wrote: > On 12-12-11 06:18, g wrote: >> if you had done such while still using the radeon driver, it would have >> been interesting to know before and after. plus, knowing temp between >> recent and last time of cleaning could give you an idea of how often you

Re: Fedora causes laptop to overheat

On 12-12-11 06:18, g wrote: > if you had done such while still using the radeon driver, it would have > been interesting to know before and after. plus, knowing temp between > recent and last time of cleaning could give you an idea of how often you > need to do such. Did that. No change between be

Re: Fedora causes laptop to overheat

On Mon, 2011-12-12 at 17:28 +1100, Roger wrote: > On warm days the display goes haywire. I purchased a large cooling > fan that blows air direct on the video card cpu cooler and it's been > very stable for 3 weeks now. It's not unknown for cooling fans to be inadequate, or for cards to only bothe

Re: lenovo has two graphic cards? -- Re: Fedora causes laptop to overheat

On 12/12/2011 03:30 AM, Joe Zeff wrote: > On 12/11/2011 09:11 PM, Robert Moskowitz wrote: >> OK. I have a brand new x120e. How do I figure out if it has 2 graphic >> cards and do I need them. BTW, I DO use the external video VGA. Both >> to my KVM at home and to projectors at meetings. > Does i

Re: lenovo has two graphic cards? -- Re: Fedora causes laptop to overheat

On 12/11/2011 09:11 PM, Robert Moskowitz wrote: > OK. I have a brand new x120e. How do I figure out if it has 2 graphic > cards and do I need them. BTW, I DO use the external video VGA. Both > to my KVM at home and to projectors at meetings. Does it have one place to plug in an external monito

Re: Fedora causes laptop to overheat

On 12/12/11 15:38, Patrick Lists wrote: > On 12-12-11 05:21, g wrote: >> On 12/11/2011 09:34 PM, Patrick Lists wrote: >>> FWIW I have seen something similar on my workstation with up-to-date F16 >>> x86_64 with GNOME3. The ATI HD57xx card heats up to more than 90C even >>> when I was just typing an

Re: Fedora causes laptop to overheat

On 12/12/2011 04:38 AM, Patrick Lists wrote: <> > Afaik it's 1920x1080 at 60Hz. -=- that will churn the gpu faster and produce more heat than a lower res. > I have no idea how to change the resolution nor how to monitor the temp > of the ATI videocard now that the Catalyst drivers are installed

Re: lenovo has two graphic cards? -- Re: Fedora causes laptop to overheat

On 12/12/2011 12:11 AM, Robert Moskowitz wrote: > OK. I have a brand new x120e. How do I figure out if it has 2 graphic > cards and do I need them. BTW, I DO use the external video VGA. Both > to my KVM at home and to projectors at meetings. > Hardware spec is one way ... or check the bi

lenovo has two graphic cards? -- Re: Fedora causes laptop to overheat

On 12/11/2011 11:16 PM, Genes MailLists wrote: > On 12/11/2011 10:48 PM, M. Fioretti wrote: >> On Sun, Dec 11, 2011 20:35:31 PM +0100, Christopher Svanefalk wrote: >> >>> one of the things I noticed rather fast was how much cooler my >>> system runs under XP... The HDD becomes unreasonably hot >> I

Re: Fedora causes laptop to overheat

On 12-12-11 05:21, g wrote: > On 12/11/2011 09:34 PM, Patrick Lists wrote: >> FWIW I have seen something similar on my workstation with up-to-date F16 >> x86_64 with GNOME3. The ATI HD57xx card heats up to more than 90C even >> when I was just typing an email in Thunderbird and nothing else loaded.

Re: Fedora causes laptop to overheat

On 12/11/2011 08:38 PM, Christopher Svanefalk wrote: <> >> I have been running Fedora since Werewolf. Recently, I had to start >> dualbooting Windows XP because of collegework, and one of the things >> I noticed rather fast was how much cooler my system runs under XP. >> Now I want to know why. -=-

Re: Fedora causes laptop to overheat

On 12/11/2011 10:48 PM, M. Fioretti wrote: > On Sun, Dec 11, 2011 20:35:31 PM +0100, Christopher Svanefalk wrote: > >> one of the things I noticed rather fast was how much cooler my >> system runs under XP... The HDD becomes unreasonably hot > > I am noticing similar behavior (and the consequent

Re: Fedora causes laptop to overheat

On Sun, Dec 11, 2011 20:35:31 PM +0100, Christopher Svanefalk wrote: > one of the things I noticed rather fast was how much cooler my > system runs under XP... The HDD becomes unreasonably hot I am noticing similar behavior (and the consequent much shorter battery time) on a HP Pavilion g6-1273sl

Re: Fedora causes laptop to overheat

For some reason Fedora and Ubuntu use a lot more power than windows xp and win7. Both my daughters laptops suffer enormous battery drain and run quite hot running linux systems in comparison to windows. Puzzling! Roger Dear all, I have been running Fedora since Werewolf. Recently, I had to s

Re: Fedora causes laptop to overheat

On 12/11/2011 08:38 PM, Christopher Svanefalk wrote: > > > On Sun, Dec 11, 2011 at 8:35 PM, Christopher Svanefalk > > wrote: > > Dear all, > > I have been running Fedora since Werewolf. Recently, I had to start > dualbooting Windows XP because of

Re: Fedora causes laptop to overheat

On Sun, Dec 11, 2011 at 8:35 PM, Christopher Svanefalk < christopher.svanef...@gmail.com> wrote: > Dear all, > > I have been running Fedora since Werewolf. Recently, I had to start > dualbooting Windows XP because of collegework, and one of the things I > noticed rather fast was how much cooler my