All,
I just flushed the brains on my trusty Asus UL30VT laptop: installed an ssd
drive and put on Debian Testing (Jessie). I brought over the necessary files
from my old Stable (Squeeze) install and lightened my load considerably.
Machine is sweet and light and boots in 30 seconds! With my old system, I kept
the laptop running (hibernating and charging with no reboot) for months
sometimes. This was very convenient.
I recall in the dusty recesses of my brain setting up the graphics card years
ago to run nvidia proprietary drivers. I'm generally pleased to say the new
system is working generally well without proprietary drivers. Nouveau seems to
be playing nicely with the Nvidia graphics card. Laptop has an Nvidia and an
Intel graphics card and there is some discussion of one card running needlessly
and burning up juice. From what I can tell, the nouveau drivers are powering
the nvidia card. Randr runs smoothly and the HDMI port worked OOB.
One thing concerns me: system seems hot. Probably not dangerously so, but the
fan seems to be running constantly when the machine is on. Closing the lid will
turn the fan off. See temp readings below. Any suggestions on troubleshooting
this? I'm runnning Gnome and GDM for now as window managers.
Thanx all. Stay dry.
root@tri:/home/joe# sensors
acpitz-virtual-0
Adapter: Virtual device
temp1: +63.0°C (crit = +100.0°C)
coretemp-isa-0000
Adapter: ISA adapter
Core 0: +56.0°C (high = +105.0°C, crit = +105.0°C)
Core 1: +58.0°C (high = +105.0°C, crit = +105.0°C)
nouveau-pci-0100
Adapter: PCI adapter
temp1: +61.0°C (high = +95.0°C, hyst = +3.0°C)
(crit = +105.0°C, hyst = +5.0°C)
(emerg = +135.0°C, hyst = +5.0°C)
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Joe Golden /_\ www.Triangul.us /_\ Coding, Drupalism, Open Sourcery
