Hey, this bug is quite serious and does not seem to be getting much attention.
It was causing crashing and overheating on my HP 8510w. It would be nice if the old 2D only "nv" driver could be supported in addition to nouveau as that driver did not cause nearly as much of an issue. If nothing will be fixed then at least the workaround should be made clearly available. I had to disassemble the system and look for broken / hot components to find the cause of the issues. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to xserver-xorg-video-nouveau in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/858265 Title: No support for power management Status in “xserver-xorg-video-nouveau” package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Bug description: With Ubuntu 11.10 beta, the Lenovo T61 with Nvidia gpu chipset NV86 runs hot and has bad battery live. As 'top' shows no evidence for unusual cpu load, I tink this is due to exceptional gpu load in idle or bad gpu power management. On ubuntu versions using the nvidia binary driver the machine stays cold and fan off almost any time on idle. I know nouveau is not really finished but until it is it should not be the default driver as that would give a very bad user experience. So I'd liked to file this bug against the oneiric distribution but ended up here. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/xserver-xorg-video-nouveau/+bug/858265/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
