Brian C. Wells wrote: > Hi. My HP G60-249WM Notebook's CPU is overheating, to the point that it > shuts itself off, whenever I use any CPU-intensive game such as glchess > (in the gnome-games package) or the non-free game sauerbraten. I also > use the non-free nvidia-glx for accelerated graphics, and have the > laptop software packages installed, in case that matters. > > It used to do this when I watched youtube videos too, so I bought a > cooling pad, and that fixed that problem; but with these games it's > happening even with that. I've tried using spacers to increase the > ventilation, tried using it on my lap with the part that feels warm > hanging out in thin air, even installed computertemp to get objective > 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 haven't filed a bug report because this seems like a symptom of a more > general problem. I'm not sure whether software (e.g. acpi/apm config) > or hardware is to blame, let alone which software package. I would > appreciate any advice.
Does the device have an Nvidia video card? -- Best, Marc "Change requires small steps." -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org