Re: Dell Inspiron N5010 laptop overheating on Debian 6.0.1, Linux 3.2.3, low CPU usage, radeon GPU driver
I did not understand exactly for the things You are fighting w/ but if You are concerned on CPU too hot - I suggest to check if the modules are loaded (not only installed on Your system) - so it was w/ mine inspiron until I set it manually to be loaded. Thank you for your reply, The drivers are loaded, I've obtained the listing via lsmod. Do you have any idea where else should I ask my question for higher chances of obtaining an answer? Simply put, the problem is that my Dell Inspiron N5010 (15R) is overheating on Linux with very low CPU usage, but does not present any issues on Windows. I've tried utilities like dellfand and i8kfan for controlling the fans, but they both claim that I have only one fan and that it's already at highest speed (not sure if I have more than one fan, or if the heating up is caused by the CPU or the GPU). Stefan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/4f280685.3030...@gmail.com
Re: Dell Inspiron N5010 laptop overheating on Debian 6.0.1, Linux 3.2.3, low CPU usage, radeon GPU driver
Good time of the day, Stefan. You worte: Do you have any idea where else should I ask my question for higher chances of obtaining an answer? No. May to try to contact manufacturer? Simply put, the problem is that my Dell Inspiron N5010 (15R) is overheating on Linux with very low CPU usage, but does not present any issues on Windows. I've tried utilities like dellfand and i8kfan for controlling the fans, but they both claim that I have only one fan and that it's already at highest speed (not sure if I have more than one fan, or if the heating up is caused by the CPU or the GPU). I scarcely know how things are going regarding Your question - including mine systems. So, all I can add to my previous words/experience w/ the problem is to try w/ the services that are running on my Inspiron seems regarding the matter (I am not sure what everything bellow does, but You can investigate farther or play w/ it) it started w/ for my run level: acpi-fakekey fancontrol acpid acpi-support apmd loadcpufreq cpufrequtils I hope it should work for You - if other earlier mentioned modules have been loaded - as it works for me. Sthu. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/4f28418e.9404cc0a.5e39.f...@mx.google.com
Re: Dell Inspiron N5010 laptop overheating on Debian 6.0.1, Linux 3.2.3, low CPU usage, radeon GPU driver
Good time of the day, Stefan. You worte: and I have all the kernel modules that should be needed for the fans to work properly: - acpi-cpufreq (ondemand), which claims that most of the time my CPU runs at low frequency: cpufreq stats: 2.40 GHz:4.11%, 2.39 GHz:0.02%, 2.26 GHz:0.08%, 2.13 GHz:0.05%, 2.00 GHz:0.08%, 1.86 GHz:0.05%, 1.73 GHz:0.05%, 1.60 GHz:0.13%, 1.46 GHz:0.42%, 1.20 GHz:95.01% (5730) - i8k (I've installed i8kutils, a tool for Dell Inspiron which allows me to manually configure the fans) - thermal, dell_laptop - intel_ips (apparently needed by my laptop's 5 Series/3400 Series Chipset Thermal Subsystem) - radeon (the free GPU driver; my video card is a HD 5470) I did not understand exactly for the things You are fighting w/ but if You are concerned on CPU too hot - I suggest to check if the modules are loaded (not only installed on Your system) - so it was w/ mine inspiron until I set it manually to be loaded. Sthu. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/4f1d8cd7.89c5cc0a.7670.1...@mx.google.com
Dell Inspiron N5010 laptop overheating on Debian 6.0.1, Linux 3.2.3, low CPU usage, radeon GPU driver
Hello, I have been struggling with my overheating laptop issue for a while, and I can't seem to fix it on Debian. My laptop does not overheat on Windows, so this is not a hardware issue. After checking my driver support on http://kmuto.jp/debian/hcl/index.rhtml, I have noticed that my then-version of kernel (2.6.32) did not support all of the hardware, so I installed 3.0.3. All my hardware seems to now be fully supported, and I have all the kernel modules that should be needed for the fans to work properly: - acpi-cpufreq (ondemand), which claims that most of the time my CPU runs at low frequency: cpufreq stats: 2.40 GHz:4.11%, 2.39 GHz:0.02%, 2.26 GHz:0.08%, 2.13 GHz:0.05%, 2.00 GHz:0.08%, 1.86 GHz:0.05%, 1.73 GHz:0.05%, 1.60 GHz:0.13%, 1.46 GHz:0.42%, 1.20 GHz:95.01% (5730) - i8k (I've installed i8kutils, a tool for Dell Inspiron which allows me to manually configure the fans) - thermal, dell_laptop - intel_ips (apparently needed by my laptop's 5 Series/3400 Series Chipset Thermal Subsystem) - radeon (the free GPU driver; my video card is a HD 5470) I can only think of two causes of my problem. The first one is that not all of the fans are running (although they are making a bit of a noise, and I can turn them off in i8kutils and notice that they are making no more noise). Maybe there are more fans, and i8kutils only controls some? The second possible cause would be the GPU driver. I have read somewhere that radeon's free driver could have some problems that would lead to overheating. I have tried fglrx for my 64bit system, but I can't seem to be able to get it to work. The screen would just start flickering with the only choice being to reboot. However, at some point, I was in the single-user console and it *appeared* that the laptop overheats the same way, which would probably mean that its not radeon's fault (I'm not sure, if it really was overheating I can double-check if you consider it relevant). The tool I'm using for reading the temperature is lm-sensors, and the output looks like this: root ~ # sensors acpitz-virtual-0 Adapter: Virtual device temp1:+69.5°C (crit = +102.0°C) i8k-virtual-0 Adapter: Virtual device Right Fan: 151200 RPM CPU: +69.0°C When idling, the temperature stays at around 70C, but as soon as I'm doing some work, it goes to 80C and above. I would appreciate any suggestions on how to diagnose my problem. Let me know if any additional information is needed. Yours, Stefan
Re: Dell Inspiron N5010 laptop overheating on Debian 6.0.1, Linux 3.2.3, low CPU usage, radeon GPU driver
On 01/22/2012 01:25 PM, M Stefan wrote: Hello, I have been struggling with my overheating laptop issue for a while, and I can't seem to fix it on Debian. My laptop does not overheat on Windows, so this is not a hardware issue. After checking my driver support on http://kmuto.jp/debian/hcl/index.rhtml, I have noticed that my then-version of kernel (2.6.32) did not support all of the hardware, so I installed 3.0.3. All my hardware seems to now be fully supported, and I have all the kernel modules that should be needed for the fans to work properly: - acpi-cpufreq (ondemand), which claims that most of the time my CPU runs at low frequency: cpufreq stats: 2.40 GHz:4.11%, 2.39 GHz:0.02%, 2.26 GHz:0.08%, 2.13 GHz:0.05%, 2.00 GHz:0.08%, 1.86 GHz:0.05%, 1.73 GHz:0.05%, 1.60 GHz:0.13%, 1.46 GHz:0.42%, 1.20 GHz:95.01% (5730) - i8k (I've installed i8kutils, a tool for Dell Inspiron which allows me to manually configure the fans) - thermal, dell_laptop - intel_ips (apparently needed by my laptop's 5 Series/3400 Series Chipset Thermal Subsystem) - radeon (the free GPU driver; my video card is a HD 5470) I can only think of two causes of my problem. The first one is that not all of the fans are running (although they are making a bit of a noise, and I can turn them off in i8kutils and notice that they are making no more noise). Maybe there are more fans, and i8kutils only controls some? The second possible cause would be the GPU driver. I have read somewhere that radeon's free driver could have some problems that would lead to overheating. I have tried fglrx for my 64bit system, but I can't seem to be able to get it to work. The screen would just start flickering with the only choice being to reboot. However, at some point, I was in the single-user console and it *appeared* that the laptop overheats the same way, which would probably mean that its not radeon's fault (I'm not sure, if it really was overheating I can double-check if you consider it relevant). The tool I'm using for reading the temperature is lm-sensors, and the output looks like this: root ~ # sensors acpitz-virtual-0 Adapter: Virtual device temp1:+69.5°C (crit = +102.0°C) i8k-virtual-0 Adapter: Virtual device Right Fan: 151200 RPM CPU: +69.0°C When idling, the temperature stays at around 70C, but as soon as I'm doing some work, it goes to 80C and above. I would appreciate any suggestions on how to diagnose my problem. Let me know if any additional informat ion is needed. Yours, Stefan This may also be an issue with i8kutils, which does not appear to have proper support for N5010. It controls the two fans by taking as input two 0-2 values (0=off,1=low,2=high) and its initial configuration is (-1,2), which can be changed to (2,2) but it does not seem to show any improvement. Still can't think of a way to diagnose the problem. Yours, Stefan
