Overheating Debian

[Douglas75]

Regards,

I have a Toshiba laptop Portege R830. I install Debian stable with KDE 8.4. My PC is overheating (80c), I have done everything to install Thermald, laptop mode tools, install the kernel bpo and my pc is always ringing and permence very hot. I put a cooler and clean the fans but do not fix it, I need help.

[Head_on_a_Stick]

Are there any processes eating all your CPU cycles in the output of top(1)?

Does your machine overheat when running a live ISO of Debian or any other distributions?

[Douglas75]

Thanks, I see a video in firefox and the temperature rises to 100c. The processes that consume more CPU are firefox, plugin-containe and Xorg. My PC has debian 8.4 and I dont have more OS running. I think the problem has to do with the video, but I do not know how to resolve it because no proprietary drivers.

[Head_on_a_Stick]

video

And your hardware is?

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lspci -knn|grep -iA2 'vga\|3d'

Are you using hardware acceleration?

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glxinfo|grep rendering

You may need mesa-utils to run that command.

I'm guessing you have Skylake or something equally shiny...

[pendrachken]

I'm guessing you have Skylake or something equally shiny...

Doing a bit of a search on the model brings up that it's Sandybridge from ~2011 or so. That said, the first review I have seen says it is noisy since it has a pretty wimpy heatpipe from the CPU so fans need to spin up as soon as you do any thing with CPU load.


Douglas75: make sure your fans are running. You should be able to hear the fans spinning very fast and loud at those temps. If you don't hear the fans start looking into why they are not spinning faster. Maybe they are not spinning at all due to fan failure, or maybe you need to set something up to control the fans within Debian.

[Douglas75]

Thanks, I already install mesa-utils an i execute glxinfo|grep rendering:

No protocol specified
Error: unable to open display :0

If the fans run, they sound very loud when I'm watching a video

[fireExit]

run both commands requested here >> http://forums.debian.net/viewtopic.php? ... 97#p615414 as user (not as root) and post the outputs.

[Douglas75]

robert@Debian8:~$ lspci -knn|grep -iA2 'vga\|3d'
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: Intel Corporation 2nd Generation Core Processor Family Integrated Graphics Controller [8086:0126] (rev 09)
Subsystem: Toshiba America Info Systems Device [1179:0005]
Kernel driver in use: i915
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00:16.3 Serial controller [0700]: Intel Corporation 6 Series/C200 Series Chipset Family KT Controller [8086:1c3d] (rev 04)
Subsystem: Toshiba America Info Systems Device [1179:0001]
Kernel driver in use: serial
robert@Debian8:~$ glxinfo|grep rendering
direct rendering: Yes
robert@Debian8:~$

[germain]

I have overheating issues on my laptop HP Envy m4, but those only happen when running Flash Player standalone windows executable through wine, I play a game and the CPU goes all the way to 100% without never stopping. After an hour or two running at 100% the laptop shuts itself off because of the thermal protection. I found that decreasing the quality in Flash Player settings to the lowest keeps the CPU running at about 30% and no overheating happens.

I suggest to monitor your CPU usage constantly (I keep a system load monitor in a panel). If it keeps running at 100% all the time find the culprit process and the solution may be easier to find.

[Douglas75]

"I found that decreasing the quality in Flash Player settings"

How do I do that?

[Douglas75]

I try to use a newer driver and get off https://01.org/linuxgraphics/downloads. I did not know how to install it, somebody help me ?. These installers are precompiled, are not source code

[stevepusser]

Things that could help:

the exact link to the driver that you are talking about.
any install documentation that comes with the driver.

[germain]

"I found that decreasing the quality in Flash Player settings"

How do I do that?

In the Flash Player that I'm using, I can right click anywhere to get a "Quality" menu.

[Douglas75]

I discovered that my computer overheats when running videos that require the plugin adobe player. Upgrade to the latest version Firefox plugin (11.2.202.621) and overheating decreased slightly but still. Any suggestions?