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#1 2007-09-29 08:29:33

floke
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[SOLVED (I think!)] Gnome 2.20 or new kernel = Hotter laptop?

My laptop (using 'watch acpi -V') has a normal 'idling' temperature of 43c (eg in ubuntu, Debian, others etc - and in Arch too). Now, after updating to Gnome 2.20 (without the new xorg stuff) and the new kernel - it idles at around 45-6 - ok no big deal but does anyone have any thoughts as to why this might be happening? The laptop always seems to be 'doing something' and X and epiphany seem to be using more memory (from 'top') than before (although this could be my imagination)!

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#2 2007-09-29 15:06:52

RedShift
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Re: [SOLVED (I think!)] Gnome 2.20 or new kernel = Hotter laptop?

Maybe your fans, air in- or outlets are clogged with dust. I'd check that first.


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#3 2007-09-30 05:23:55

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Re: [SOLVED (I think!)] Gnome 2.20 or new kernel = Hotter laptop?

My laptop is a lot warmer when I used 2.6.22:
http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=36648

I downgraded to 2.6.21 and now I'm waiting to 2.6.23 to upgrade again.
I don't really know why 2.6.22 did not control my fan (or acpi?) very well. hmm

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#4 2007-09-30 06:43:48

floke
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Re: [SOLVED (I think!)] Gnome 2.20 or new kernel = Hotter laptop?

I think its a compiz issue - everything works fine without it. Also - restarting it once temperature reaches 50 drops it straight back to 45!

How did you downgrade your kernel btw? The only thing I don't like about arch is that it removes your old ones automatically (what happened to user choice?). Of course I could have this all wrong!

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#5 2007-09-30 07:39:12

harlekin
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Re: [SOLVED (I think!)] Gnome 2.20 or new kernel = Hotter laptop?

If you don't choose as user not to issue `pacman -Sc` or `pacman -Scc` there should be some old packages in /var/cache/pacman/pkg which you can use for downgrading.

The fact that arch is removing the updates from the package servers is:
- reduced usage of (server's) disc space
- no mess with support for out-dated packages

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#6 2007-09-30 17:50:53

floke
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Re: [SOLVED (I think!)] Gnome 2.20 or new kernel = Hotter laptop?

Well it does have its advantages - ie I don't have to edit grub menu.lst after kernel updates (grub running off a different partition). So - to downgrade my kernel to, say' 26-2.6.22.5-1 I just point to it and do a pacman -S <name> ? Do I need to redo kernel headers too, or are they normally ok?

Thanks for the advice.

** EDIT - Downgraded to old kernel and all seems fine now **

Last edited by floke (2007-09-30 20:25:43)

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