[Mageia-discuss] Laptop running hot

Mon Aug 6 12:03:43 CEST 2012

On Mon, Aug 6, 2012 at 11:40 AM, Shlomi Fish <shlomif at shlomifish.org> wrote:
+
+> Hi Max,
+>
+> On Mon, 6 Aug 2012 08:24:34 +0300
+> Max Quarterpleen <bogusman222 at gmail.com> wrote:
+>
+> > I finally got around to upgrading my laptop to Mga2, and it's running
+> > very hot.
+> > Much hotter than Windows and Mga1.
+> > Does anybody know of any way to help this?
+> > This not only makes it uncomfortable to work, it has a detrimental
+> > effect on battery life...
+>
+> Your message is awfully short of details. What I'd like to know is:
+>
+> 1. What is your laptop's model and specifications?
+>
+
+It is a Toshiba Satellite L745-S4210.
+Specs from manufacturer's site:
+http://us.toshiba.com/computers/laptops/satellite/l740/l745-s4210/
+(I paid $100 less than that price last December at Best Buy)
+
+
+>
+> 2. Which desktop environment are you using?
+>
+
+KDE 4.8.2
+
+
+>
+> 3. Which applications are you running?
+>
+
+As a general rule: Firefox and Konsole.
+Occasionally Dolphin, Dragon Player, Libre Office, Amarok.... nothing
+exceptionally heavy.
+
+
+>
+> 4. Which graphics driver are you using? Is it the proprietary driver?
+>
+
+>From lshw:
+*-display
+             description: VGA compatible controller
+             product: 2nd Generation Core Processor Family Integrated
+Graphics Controller
+             vendor: Intel Corporation
+             physical id: 2
+             bus info: pci at 0000:00:02.0
+             version: 09
+             width: 64 bits
+             clock: 33MHz
+             capabilities: msi pm vga_controller bus_master cap_list rom
+             configuration: driver=i915 latency=0
+             resources: irq:41 memory:c0000000-c03fffff
+memory:b0000000-bfffffff ioport:4000(size=64)
+
+$ modinfo video
+filename:
+/lib/modules/3.3.6-desktop-2.mga2/kernel/drivers/acpi/video.ko.xz
+license:        GPL
+description:    ACPI Video Driver
+author:         Bruno Ducrot
+srcversion:     10DC2D8B4D20653B4416E00
+alias:          acpi*:LNXVIDEO:*
+depends:
+intree:         Y
+vermagic:       3.3.6-desktop-2.mga2 SMP mod_unload modversions
+parm:           brightness_switch_enabled:bool
+parm:           allow_duplicates:bool
+parm:           use_bios_initial_backlight:bool
+
+I think that answers the question.
+Thanks.
+
+
+> Regards,
+>
+>         Shlomi Fish
+>
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