On Mon, Nov 02, 2009 at 03:17:55PM -0800, Brian C. Wells wrote:
On Fri, 2009-10-30 at 21:05 -1000, Joel Roth wrote:
On Wed, Oct 28, 2009 at 04:47:55PM -0700, Brian C. Wells wrote:
Vacuuming brought the idle temperature down by 5C. sauerbraten now runs
great at about 80C, but
On Fri, 2009-10-30 at 21:05 -1000, Joel Roth wrote:
On Wed, Oct 28, 2009 at 04:47:55PM -0700, Brian C. Wells wrote:
Vacuuming brought the idle temperature down by 5C. sauerbraten now runs
great at about 80C, but glchess/gnuchess still gets up to 95C or more!
You might look to see where
On Sat, Oct 24, 2009 at 01:10:19PM -0700, Raquel wrote:
On Sat, 24 Oct 2009 11:00:09 -0700
Brian C. Wells blue_guy_...@sbcglobal.net wrote:
On Fri, 2009-10-23 at 22:19 -0700, Raquel wrote:
On Fri, 23 Oct 2009 20:40:01 -0700
Brian C. Wells blue_guy_...@sbcglobal.net wrote:
On Wed, Oct 28, 2009 at 04:47:55PM -0700, Brian C. Wells wrote:
Vacuuming brought the idle temperature down by 5C. sauerbraten now runs
great at about 80C, but glchess/gnuchess still gets up to 95C or more!
You might look to see where the vents are located. I have my
notebook up on spacers so
Brian C. Wells wrote:
On Tue, 2009-10-27 at 07:49 +, marc wrote:
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
On Tue, 2009-10-27 at 19:30 -0700, Brian C. Wells wrote:
[...]
I also want to apologize for taking 4 days to respond. I thought it
would be best to wait until I had tried using the vacuum, but still
haven't gotten around to it. I don't have carpeted floors where I live,
so I don't have easy
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,
On Sun, 2009-10-25 at 00:34 +0200, Klistvud wrote:
Well, the script is quite simple, it only works in Gnome (a
more system-wide script would have to be run as superuser and I just
couldn't be bothered to type in my root password every time I wanted to
change CPU governor):
script to
On Tue, 2009-10-27 at 07:49 +, marc wrote:
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
On Saturday 24 October 2009 19:50:36 Celejar wrote:
On Sun, 25 Oct 2009 00:34:11 +0200
Klistvud quotati...@aliceadsl.fr wrote:
Well, the script is quite simple, it only works in Gnome (a
more system-wide script would have to be run as superuser and I just
couldn't be bothered to type in my
On Mon, 26 Oct 2009 12:10:18 -0500
Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. b...@iguanasuicide.net wrote:
...
Another possibility is to make it suid root.
Suid scripts don't work unless your shell/interpreter is also suid.
This is usually a bad idea.
Thanks for the information. I didn't know that, but
Dne, 24. 10. 2009 05:40:01 je Brian C. Wells napisal(a):
On Fri, 2009-10-23 at 21:15 -0400, Stefan Monnier wrote:
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.
On Fri, 2009-10-23 at 22:19 -0700, Raquel wrote:
On Fri, 23 Oct 2009 20:40:01 -0700
Brian C. Wells blue_guy_...@sbcglobal.net wrote:
I don't -think- it's a fan problem. It seems to be blowing plenty
of hot air out, and I can't see or blow out any obvious clogs [...]
I have a G70,
On Sat, 2009-10-24 at 10:35 +0200, Klistvud wrote:
Dne, 24. 10. 2009 05:40:01 je Brian C. Wells napisal(a):
On Fri, 2009-10-23 at 21:15 -0400, Stefan Monnier wrote:
evidence that the CPU's temperature is increasing to dangerous
levels
(95 deg. Celsius). As soon as I start a game, it
On Sat, 24 Oct 2009 11:00:09 -0700
Brian C. Wells blue_guy_...@sbcglobal.net wrote:
On Fri, 2009-10-23 at 22:19 -0700, Raquel wrote:
On Fri, 23 Oct 2009 20:40:01 -0700
Brian C. Wells blue_guy_...@sbcglobal.net wrote:
I don't -think- it's a fan problem. It seems to be blowing
Dne, 24. 10. 2009 21:15:34 je Brian C. Wells napisal(a):
Wow. Except for the part about writing a script, I have no idea
about
how to do that. Can you attach a copy of your script to the email
(and
does Debian's list server forward attachments?) or can you upload the
script to a
On Sun, 25 Oct 2009 00:34:11 +0200
Klistvud quotati...@aliceadsl.fr wrote:
...
Well, the script is quite simple, it only works in Gnome (a
more system-wide script would have to be run as superuser and I just
couldn't be bothered to type in my root password every time I wanted
to change CPU
Dne, 25. 10. 2009 02:50:36 je Celejar napisal(a):
This is what sudo is for - one just configures it to allow anyone to
run it as root. Another possibility is to make it suid root. I
suppose, though, that either of these techniques might be security
risks, if the script is buggy /
On Sun, 25 Oct 2009 03:05:27 +0100
Klistvud quotati...@aliceadsl.fr wrote:
Dne, 25. 10. 2009 02:50:36 je Celejar napisal(a):
This is what sudo is for - one just configures it to allow anyone to
run it as root. Another possibility is to make it suid root. I
suppose, though, that either
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
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.
Sounds like a hardware problem; most likely a fan problem: either it's
clogged, or it's broken, or something.
Stefan
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On Fri, 2009-10-23 at 21:15 -0400, Stefan Monnier wrote:
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.
Sounds like a hardware problem; most likely a fan problem: either it's
On Fri, 23 Oct 2009 20:40:01 -0700
Brian C. Wells blue_guy_...@sbcglobal.net wrote:
I don't -think- it's a fan problem. It seems to be blowing plenty
of hot air out, and I can't see or blow out any obvious clogs w/o
opening the case. To me, it seems more like a design defect; this
laptop
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