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wnwek

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Registered: 2009-05-03

Posts: 17

Erratic Behaviour on Intel 945GM

I have an Intel 945GM chipset and GNOME with Compiz-Fusion on my Dell Latitude 520 runs quite okay on my laptop, though I have a nagging feeling, my xorg.conf is not exactly most efficiently written. Especially because it has multiple "Device" and "Screen" sections.

And it has no keyboard and mouse config statements. It seems to be all running on auto-configure, and I know I enabled hot-plugging, but I can't remember which statements in my xorg.conf does that.

Can anybody tell me why this seems to be working? And how it can be made better?

Also, my screen blanks out sometimes, but it comes back on immediately, and my CPU temperatures seem to be running at around 65 degrees C (147 F) constantly, even though there doesn't seem to be any significant consumption of CPU cycles by any process.

I was earlier on Ubuntu where my core temperatures would run to about 55 degrees C at the most, and 65 seems to be really high to me. (I don't want to go back, so I'd love to have somebody give me some pointers.)

Section "Device"
    Identifier    "Builtin Default intel Device 0"
    Driver    "intel"
EndSection
Section "Screen"
    Identifier    "Builtin Default intel Screen 0"
    Device    "Builtin Default intel Device 0"
EndSection
Section "Device"
    Identifier    "Builtin Default i810 Device 0"
    Driver    "i810"
    Option      "DRI"                    "True"
    Option      "NoDDC"                  "True"
    Option      "XAANoOffscreenPixmaps"  "True"
    Option      "EnablePageFlip"         "True"
    Option      "RenderAccel"            "True"
    Option      "AccelMethod"            "XAA"
EndSection
Section "Screen"
    Identifier    "Builtin Default i810 Screen 0"
    Device    "Builtin Default i810 Device 0"
EndSection
Section "Device"
    Identifier    "Builtin Default vesa Device 0"
    Driver    "vesa"
EndSection
Section "Screen"
    Identifier    "Builtin Default vesa Screen 0"
    Device    "Builtin Default vesa Device 0"
EndSection
Section "Device"
    Identifier    "Builtin Default fbdev Device 0"
    Driver    "fbdev"
EndSection
Section "Screen"
    Identifier    "Builtin Default fbdev Screen 0"
    Device    "Builtin Default fbdev Device 0"
EndSection
Section "ServerLayout"
    Identifier    "Builtin Default Layout"
    Screen    "Builtin Default intel Screen 0"
    Screen    "Builtin Default i810 Screen 0"
    Screen    "Builtin Default vesa Screen 0"
    Screen    "Builtin Default fbdev Screen 0"
EndSection
Section "Extensions"
    Option "Composite" "Enable"
EndSection

Liquen

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Registered: 2009-01-04

Posts: 40

Re: Erratic Behaviour on Intel 945GM

I replied you here.

wnwek

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Registered: 2009-05-03

Posts: 17

Re: Erratic Behaviour on Intel 945GM

Thanks. Will