On Mon, Aug 6, 2012 at 11:40 AM, Shlomi Fish <shlomif@shlomifish.org> wrote:

Hi Max,

On Mon, 6 Aug 2012 08:24:34 +0300
Max Quarterpleen <bogusman222@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@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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