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Too hot gpu? If you have a ATI graphics chip on that machine, you can try one of the following: - Installing the proprietary drivers (fglrx). https://help.ubun

Too hot gpu? If you have a ATI graphics chip on that machine, you can try one of the following: - Installing the proprietary drivers (fglrx). https://help.ubuntu.com/community/BinaryDriverHowto/ATI https://help.ubuntu.com/community/BinaryDriverHowto/ATI - Properly configuring power management for the libre ones. http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1569512 http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1569512 Disclaimer: I'm not an ubuntu user (debian here)

jiri 14y ago
Sorry, dont have ATI, I have Nvidia NVS 160M, using proprietary drivers. I think I'll try to figure out power management again in few weeks, but I'll decided to stay with 2D for now.
coldflame23 14y ago
"- Installing the proprietary drivers (fglrx)..." Don't do this if you don't need 3d graphics. The proprietary driver is unstable.
dfc 14y ago
No self respecting debian user encourages the use of non-free video drivers.
- Karunamon 14y ago
  No self respecting user cares - they want want does the job in the most effective manner. Anything else is pointless, stallmanesque self flagellation.
  - SkyMarshal 14y ago
    Agree and disagree. It's not pointless, it's principled, and Stallman has this way of being right in the long term, so we ignore him at our peril. However, for Linux to be a 100% replacement for Windows or OS X, we have to use to non-free software for some things. You could always choose not to do those things, as Stallman does, and sometimes I'm tempted given how little real utility movies and whatnot have in my life, but for Linux and all the free software it brings to make headway with the general public, non-free software is a necessary evil. It's a tradeoff, both sides have pros and cons, gotta know them, and make an informed choice.
rbanffy 14y ago
That's why I have Intel GPUs on my machines. And if I need games, I'll buy a PS/3. As long as they are selling hardware or not getting the bad reputation they deserve, ATI and Nvidia won't fix the problem (of not having proper support for open-source drivers). As it is now, I'd never buy an ATI or Nvidia board for 3D. If one doesn't want the other using their technologies, make the source public under a non-open license and sue the other if they use it. BTW, offer an easy and automated way to build, test and install the kernel modules.

jiri 14y ago

Sorry, dont have ATI, I have Nvidia NVS 160M, using proprietary drivers. I think I'll try to figure out power management again in few weeks, but I'll decided to stay with 2D for now.

coldflame23 14y ago

"- Installing the proprietary drivers (fglrx)..." Don't do this if you don't need 3d graphics. The proprietary driver is unstable.

dfc 14y ago

No self respecting debian user encourages the use of non-free video drivers.

Karunamon 14y ago
No self respecting user cares - they want want does the job in the most effective manner. Anything else is pointless, stallmanesque self flagellation.
- SkyMarshal 14y ago
  Agree and disagree. It's not pointless, it's principled, and Stallman has this way of being right in the long term, so we ignore him at our peril. However, for Linux to be a 100% replacement for Windows or OS X, we have to use to non-free software for some things. You could always choose not to do those things, as Stallman does, and sometimes I'm tempted given how little real utility movies and whatnot have in my life, but for Linux and all the free software it brings to make headway with the general public, non-free software is a necessary evil. It's a tradeoff, both sides have pros and cons, gotta know them, and make an informed choice.

rbanffy 14y ago

That's why I have Intel GPUs on my machines. And if I need games, I'll buy a PS/3. As long as they are selling hardware or not getting the bad reputation they deserve, ATI and Nvidia won't fix the problem (of not having proper support for open-source drivers). As it is now, I'd never buy an ATI or Nvidia board for 3D. If one doesn't want the other using their technologies, make the source public under a non-open license and sue the other if they use it. BTW, offer an easy and automated way to build, test and install the kernel modules.